The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Logic and Spiritualism [R]’

Term: 
Matter
Quote: 

Feelings over whose relations to their neighbors habit has acquired such an empire that we detect no trace of spontaneity in their actions, are known as dead matter.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1890). Logic and Spiritualism [R]. MS [R] 878
Date: 
1890
References: 
W 6:393; CP 6.585
Citation: 
‘Matter’ (pub. 21.10.15-13:26). 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-logic-and-spiritualism-r-3.
Posted: 
Oct 21, 2015, 13:26 by Mats Bergman