The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Logic of Continuity’

Term: 
Matter
Quote: 

…dead matter would be merely the final result of the complete induration of habit reducing the free play of feeling and the brute irrationality of effort to complete death.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1898). Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Logic of Continuity. MS [R] 948
Date: 
1898
References: 
RLT 261; CP 6.201
Citation: 
‘Matter’ (pub. 21.10.15-13:42). 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-cambridge-lectures-reasoning-and-logic-things-logic-continuity-3.
Posted: 
Oct 21, 2015, 13:42 by Mats Bergman
Last revised: 
Oct 21, 2015, 13:42 by Mats Bergman