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Term: 
Habit
Quote: 

…by a Habit I shall mean a character of anything, say of B, this character consisting in the fact that under circumstances of a certain kind, say A, B would tend to be such as is signified by a determinate predicate, say C. The same thing might be more briefly expressed by saying that I call any real “Would-be” a habit of the subject of such predication, but by stating the matter more fully I bring into prominence the fact that a “Would-be” is a relation between three objects, A, B, and C.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1913). A Study of How to Reason Safely and Efficiently. MS [R] 681.
References: 
MS [R] 681:22
Date of Quote: 
1913
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