The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Reason's Conscience: A Practical Treatise on the Theory of Discovery; Wherein logic is conceived as Semeiotic’

Term: 
Percept
Quote: 

Knowledge takes its rise from the percept, which is the object perceived in a single act of perceiving. [—] The percepts are not knowledge, but are the starting points of knowledge, in which many percepts and possibilities of percepts are worked up into propositions.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). Reason's Conscience: A Practical Treatise on the Theory of Discovery; Wherein logic is conceived as Semeiotic. MS [R] 693
Date: 
1904
References: 
HP 2:809-10; MS 693:378-80
Citation: 
‘Percept’ (pub. 07.08.16-18:22). 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-reasons-conscience-practical-treatise-theory-discovery-wherein-logic-19.
Posted: 
Aug 07, 2016, 18:22 by Mats Bergman
Last revised: 
Aug 07, 2016, 18:30 by Mats Bergman