The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism’

Term: 
Hypostatic Abstraction
Quote: 

That wonderful operation of hypostatic abstraction by which we seem to create entia rationis that are, nevertheless, sometimes real, furnishes us the means of turning predicates from being signs that we think or think through, into being subjects thought of.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1906). Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism
Date: 
1906
References: 
CP 4.549
Citation: 
‘Hypostatic Abstraction’ (pub. 18.07.15-19:26). 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-prolegomena-apology-pragmaticism-33.
Posted: 
Jul 18, 2015, 19:26 by Mats Bergman