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Quote from ‘Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise’

Term: 
Categories
Quote: 

I essay an analysis of what appears in the world. It is not metaphysics that we are dealing with: only logic. Therefore, we do not ask what really is, but only what appears to everyone of us in every minute of our lives. I analyze experience, which is the cognitive resultant of our past lives, and find in it three elements. I call them Categories.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1902). Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise. MS [R] 425
Date: 
1902
References: 
CP 2.84
Citation: 
‘Categories’ (pub. 07.04.13-08:50). 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-minute-logic-chapter-i-intended-characters-treatise-17.
Posted: 
Apr 07, 2013, 08:50 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:58 by Commens Admin