The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Issues of Pragmaticism’

Quote: 

when knowledge is indeterminate among alternatives, either there is one state of things which alone accords with them all, when this is in the Mode of Necessity, or there is more than one state of things that no knowledge excludes, when each of these is in the Mode of Possibility.

Date: 
1905
References: 
CP 5.454
Citation: 
‘Necessity’ (pub. 22.09.14-12:57). 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-issues-pragmaticism-14.
Posted: 
Sep 22, 2014, 13:04 by Mats Bergman
Published: 
Sep 22, 2014, 12:57