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‘Agapasm’ (pub. 03.01.13-19:12). 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-0.
Term: 
Agapasm
Quote: 

So that the social theory of reality, far from being incompatible with tychism, inevitably leads up to that form of philosophy. Socialistic, or as I prefer to term it, agapastic ontology seems to me likely to find favour with many minds at an early day, because it is a natural path by which the nominalist may be led into the realistic ways of thought, ways toward which many facts and inward forces impel him. [—] Thus it is that the agapastic ontologist who endeavours to escape tychism will find himself “led into” that “inextricable confusion” which Dr. Carus has taken a contract to show that I am led into.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1893). Reply to the Necessitarians: Rejoinder to Dr. Carus. The Monist, 3, 526-570.
References: 
CP 6.610
Date of Quote: 
1893
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