Collateral Experience   

Collateral Experience

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce
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1908 [c.] | Letters to Lady Welby | MS [R] L463:14

A Sign may bring before the Mind, a new hypothesis, or a sentiment, a quality, a respect, a degree, a thing, an event, a law, etc. But it never can convey anything to a person who has not had a direct experience or at least original self-experience of the same object, collateral experience.