The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Pragmatism’

Term: 
Habit
Quote: 

By a habit I mean any modification of a person’s disposition, or tendency, when actuated by certain desires, to respond to perceptual conditions, by conduct of a certain kind, such modification resulting from previous external experiences or from certain previous voluntary action of effort on the part of the same person.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1907). Pragmatism. MS [R] 318
Date: 
1907
References: 
MS [R] 318:34
Editorial Annotations: 

From a possibly discarded draft

Citation: 
‘Habit’ (pub. 14.10.15-19:11). 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-pragmatism-67.
Posted: 
Oct 14, 2015, 19:11 by Mats Bergman