The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘A Guess at the Riddle’

Quote: 

Synthetical consciousness degenerate in the second degree, corresponding to intermediate thirds, is where we think different feelings to be alike or different, which, since feelings in themselves cannot be compared and therefore cannot be alike, so that to say they are alike is merely to say that the synthetical consciousness regards them so, comes to this, that we are internally compelled to synthesize them or to sunder them. This kind of synthesis appears in a secondary form in association by resemblance.

Date: 
1887-1888
References: 
W 6:186-7; CP 1.383
Citation: 
‘Association by Resemblance’ (pub. 26.07.15-17:31). 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-guess-riddle-11.
Posted: 
Jul 26, 2015, 17:31 by Mats Bergman