The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘The Fourth Curiosity’

Term: 
Existence
Quote: 

All to which the senses normally testify without room for critical reasoning is usually and properly said to be “experienced”; and all that is truly experienced is, in the epistemological sense, existent. [—]

In the metaphysical sense, existence is that mode of being which consists in the resultant genuine dyadic relation of a strict individual with all the other such individuals of the same universe.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1907). The Fourth Curiosity. MS [R] 200
Date: 
1907
References: 
CP 6.335-336
Citation: 
‘Existence’ (pub. 29.05.14-18:19). 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-fourth-curiosity-3.
Posted: 
May 29, 2014, 18:19 by Mats Bergman
Last revised: 
Mar 07, 2016, 10:53 by Mats Bergman