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Quote from ‘Syllabus: Syllabus of a course of Lectures at the Lowell Institute beginning 1903, Nov. 23. On Some Topics of Logic’

Term: 
Psychical Science
Quote: 

Idioscopy has two wings: (α) the Physical Sciences; and (β) the Psychical, or Human Sciences.

Psychical science borrows principles continually from the physical sciences; the latter very little from the former.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Syllabus: Syllabus of a course of Lectures at the Lowell Institute beginning 1903, Nov. 23. On Some Topics of Logic. MS [R] 478
Date: 
1903
References: 
EP 2:259; CP 1.187
Citation: 
‘Psychical Science’ (pub. 07.08.16-17:05). 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-syllabus-syllabus-course-lectures-lowell-institute-beginning-1903-nov-23-7.
Posted: 
Aug 07, 2016, 17:05 by Mats Bergman