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Quote from ‘Letters to Lady Welby’

Term: 
Triadomany
Quote: 

… I was long ago (1867) led, after only three or four years’ study, to throw all ideas into the three classes of Firstness, of Secondness, and of Thirdness. This sort of notion is as distasteful to me as to anybody; and for years, I endeavored to pooh-pooh and refute it; but it long ago conquered me completely. Disagreeable as it is to attribute such meaning to numbers, and to a triad above all, it is as true as it is disagreeable.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (nd). Letters to Lady Welby. MS [R] L463
Date: 
1904
References: 
CP 8.328
Citation: 
‘Triadomany’ (pub. 09.03.13-16:35). 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-letters-lady-welby-11.
Posted: 
Mar 09, 2013, 16:35 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:58 by Commens Admin