The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Letters to Mario Calderoni’

Term: 
Existence
Quote: 

That mode of being which we call existence, the reaction of everything in the universe against every other, the crowding out of a place for itself, acting most on things near, less on things far, but brutally insisting on a place is Secundan. I say “brutally”, because no law, so far as we know, makes any single object to exist. Law only determines in what way things shall behave, once they do exist.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1905). Letters to Mario Calderoni. MS [R] L67
Date: 
1905
References: 
MS [R] L67
Editorial Annotations: 

This passage has been obtained from the transcription provided by the Peirce Study Group at the University of Navarra

Citation: 
‘Existence’ (pub. 19.03.18-10:30). 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-letters-mario-calderoni-3.
Posted: 
Mar 19, 2018, 10:30 by Mats Bergman