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‘Continuum’ (pub. 30.03.15-14:35). 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-relatives-2.
Term: 
Continuum
Quote: 

A collection, or system, is an abstraction or abstract ens; and thus the whole doctrine of number is founded on the operation of abstraction. If we conceive an object to be a collective whole, but to be so in such a way that it has no part which is not itself a collective whole in the same way, then, if the collection is of the nature of a sorite, it is a general, whose parts are distinguished merely as having additional characters; but if the collection is a set, whose members have other relations to one another, it is a continuum.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1902). Relatives. In J. M. Baldwin (Ed.), Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, Vol. II (pp. 447-450). London: Macmillan and Co.
References: 
Cp 3.642
Date of Quote: 
1902
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