The Commens Dictionary
Quote from ‘Notes on Portions of Hume's "Treatise on Human Nature"’
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Quote:
The scholastic realist says, “[…] there are real laws (or necessities,) and real possibilities. They are not actual: they do not exist: but they are not figments. They are such as they are whether you and I think them to be so, or not. The future does not exist. But it is really true that if I find the air in my study stuffy, I can open the window.”
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Date:
1905
References:
MS [R] 939:21
Citation:
‘Scholastic Realism’ (pub. 13.10.15-11:30). 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-portions-humes-treatise-human-nature-2.