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‘Real’ (pub. 08.09.15-00:07). 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-rationale-reasoning.
Term: 
Real
Quote: 

I call anything “real” be it anything asserted, or imagined, or conceived, or any element of such assertion, image, or concept, or of whatever other sort it may be, if, and only if, it possesses characters which it would possess, just the same, whether […] you or I, or anybody else, or everybody living during any limits of time, opines, fancies, or otherwise thinks it possesses them, or not. Almost everybody and everything possesses some characters that are not of this description.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1910). The Rationale of Reasoning. MS [R] 663.
References: 
MS [R] 663:5-6
Date of Quote: 
1910
URL: 

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