The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Notes on the Categories [R]’

Term: 
Distinction
Quote: 

…even when one element cannot even be supposed without another, they may ofttimes be distinguished from one another. Thus we can neither imagine nor suppose a taller without a shorter, yet we can distinguish the taller from the shorter. I call this mode of separation Distinction.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1885). Notes on the Categories [R]. MS [R] 895; MS [W] 545
Date: 
1885
References: 
W 5:238; CP 1.353
Citation: 
‘Distinction’ (pub. 18.07.15-18:23). 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-notes-categories-2.
Posted: 
Jul 18, 2015, 18:23 by Mats Bergman