The Commens Dictionary
Quote from ‘Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III’
Term:
Quote:
Category the Second is the Idea of that which is such as it is as being Second to some First, regardless of anything else, and in particular regardless of any Law, although it may conform to a law. That is to say, it is Reaction as an element of the Phenomenon.
Date:
1903
References:
CP 5.66
Citation:
‘Secondness’ (pub. 09.01.13-18:34). 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-0.