The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (O)’

Term: 
Experience
Quote: 

An “Experience” is a brutally produced conscious effect that contributes to a habit, self-controlled, yet so satisfying, on deliberation, as to be destructible by no positive exercise of internal vigour.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1908). A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (O). MS [R] 841
Date: 
1908
References: 
CP 6.454
Citation: 
‘Experience’ (pub. 21.04.13-18:24). 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-neglected-argument-reality-god-o-4.
Posted: 
Apr 21, 2013, 18:24 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:57 by Commens Admin