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‘Actuality’ (pub. 15.10.15-14:07). 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-prescott-book-1.
Term: 
Actuality
Quote: 

Actuality is the Act which determines the merely possible. It is the act of direct determination[,] itself arbitrary. The act of arbitrary determination..

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907-10). The Prescott Book. MS [R] 277.
References: 
MS [R] 277
Date of Quote: 
1908
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