Quote from "Pragmatism"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Experience’ (pub. 16.10.15-16:52). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-pragmatism-85.

Term:

Experience

Quote:

An experience […] is a single event, or is an expectation of it; and no sum of single objects can make up a general. An experience, or the generalization of experiences, seems to me to be rather the object determining a concept than the meaning determined by it.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1907). Pragmatism. MS [R] 319.

References:

MS [R] 319:8

Date of Quote:

1907

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-pragmatism-85