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Quote from ‘Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III’

Term: 
Firstness
Quote: 

Category the First is the Idea of that which is such as it is regardless of anything else. That is to say, it is a Quality of Feeling. […]

Category the First owing to its Extremely Rudimentary character is not susceptible of any degenerate or weakened modification.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III. MS [R] 308
Date: 
1903
References: 
CP 5.66-68
Citation: 
‘Firstness’ (pub. 09.01.13-18:32). 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-harvard-lectures-pragmatism-lecture-iii.
Posted: 
Jan 09, 2013, 18:32 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 01:01 by Commens Admin