‘Habit-taking’ (pub. 22.10.15-14:28). 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-reply-necessitarians-rejoinder-dr-carus.
Quote:
A realist, such as I am, can find no difficulty in the production of that first infinitesimal germ of habit-taking by chance, provided he thinks chance could act at all. This seems, at first blush, to be explaining something as a chance-result. But exact analysis will show it is not so.
Source:
Peirce, C. S. (1893). Reply to the Necessitarians: Rejoinder to Dr. Carus. The Monist, 3, 526-570.
References:
The Monist, 3, p. 560; CP 6.612
URL:
http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-reply-necessitarians-rejoinder-dr-carus