The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Issues of Pragmaticism’

Term: 
Consciousness
Quote: 

…anti-synechistic thinkers wind themselves up in a factitious snarl by falsifying the phenomena in representing consciousness to be, as it were, a skin, a separate tissue, overlying an unconscious region of the occult nature, mind, soul, or physiological basis. It appears to me that in the present state of our knowledge a sound methodeutic prescribes that, in adhesion to the appearances, the difference is only relative and the demarcation not precise.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1905). Issues of Pragmaticism
Date: 
1905
References: 
EP 2:347; CP 5.440
Citation: 
‘Consciousness’ (pub. 23.10.15-15:30). 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-20.
Posted: 
Oct 23, 2015, 15:30 by Mats Bergman