The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Lowell Lectures. 1903. Lecture 3’

Term: 
Collection
Quote: 

A Collection is anything whose being consists in the existence of whatever there may exist that has any one quality; and if such thing or things exist, the collection is a single thing whose existence consists in the existence of all those very things.

According to this definition, a collection is an ens rationis. [—] A collection has essence and may have existence.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures. 1903. Lecture 3. MS [R] 459
Date: 
1903
References: 
MS [R] 459:36-37
Citation: 
‘Collection’ (pub. 29.09.14-10:40). 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-lowell-lectures-1903-lecture-3-4.
Posted: 
Sep 29, 2014, 10:40 by Mats Bergman
Last revised: 
Sep 29, 2014, 10:43 by Mats Bergman