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Quote from ‘Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Part 1 of 3rd draught of 3rd Lecture’

Term: 
Firstness
Quote: 

The immediate present, could we seize it, would have no character but its Firstness. Not that I mean to say that immediate consciousness (a pure fiction, by the way), would be Firstness, but that the quality of what we are immediately conscious of, which is no fiction, is Firstness.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Part 1 of 3rd draught of 3rd Lecture. MS [R] 464
Date: 
1903
References: 
CP 1.343
Citation: 
‘Firstness’ (pub. 08.01.13-20:47). 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-some-topics-logic-bearing-questions-now-vexed-part-1-3rd.
Posted: 
Jan 08, 2013, 20:47 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 01:01 by Commens Admin