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Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/09/2015 Quote from "The Rationale of Reason" As the contrary of “real” I employ the word fictile, without any implication of intentional falsification, any more than its absence. |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/09/2015 Quote from "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" A figment is a product of somebody’s imagination; it has such characters as his thought impresses upon it. |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/09/2015 Quote from "The Fourth Curiosity" …the question of whether anything is real or is a figment is the question what a word or other symbol or concept denotes. If the attributes of or... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/09/2015 Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture VI" It is true that when the Arabian romancer tells us that there was a lady named Scherherazade, he does not mean to be understood as speaking of the world of outward realities, and there is a great... |
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Manuscript | Posted 26/11/2014 Peirce, Charles S. (1909). Meaning Preface. MS [R] 637 Robin Catalogue: Retroduction, Methodeutic, Logic, Christoph Sigwart, Kant, Real, Existence, Thought, Immediate Perception, Dialogue, Argument, Semeiotic, Sign, Object, Icon, Index, Symbol, Precept, Emanation, Interpretation, Actual, Principle of Excluded Middle, Figment, Immediate Judgment, Berkeley, Utterance, Interpretant
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Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014 Peirce, Charles S. (1912). Notes Preparatory to a Criticism of Bertrand Russell's Principles of Mathematics. MS [R] 12 Robin Catalogue: |