The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘A Brief Intellectual Autobiography by Charles Sanders Peirce’

Term: 
Firstness
Quote: 

Firstness is the mode or element of being by which any subject is such as it is, positively and regardless of everything else; or rather, the category is not bound down to this particular conception but is the element which is characteristic and peculiar in this definition and is a prominent ingredient in the ideas of quality, qualitativeness, absoluteness, originality, variety, chance, possibility, form, essence, feeling, etc.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1983). A Brief Intellectual Autobiography by Charles Sanders Peirce
Date: 
1904
References: 
Peirce, 1983, p. 72; MS [R] L107:22
Editorial Annotations: 

This quote has been taken from Kenneth Laine Ketner's 1983 reconstruction of Peirce's 'Autobiography'

Citation: 
‘Firstness’ (pub. 15.03.18-13:25). 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-brief-intellectual-autobiography-charles-sanders-peirce-15.
Posted: 
Mar 15, 2018, 13:25 by Mats Bergman
Published: 
Mar 15, 2018, 13:25