The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Letters to Mario Calderoni’

Term: 
Degenerate Secondness
Quote: 

…that Secundanity which consists in one man’s having a stature of 6 feet and another man’s having a stature of 5 feet is a degenerate Secundanity, since each would be just what he is if the other were not there, and would be Second in the same way to a merely possible but non-existent man.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1905). Letters to Mario Calderoni. MS [R] L67
Date: 
1905
References: 
MS [R] L67:32-33
Citation: 
‘Degenerate Secondness’ (pub. 19.03.18-11:17). 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-7.
Posted: 
Mar 19, 2018, 11:17 by Mats Bergman