Figment

Keyword: Figment


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.

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.

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...

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...

Manuscript | Posted 26/11/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1909). Meaning Preface. MS [R] 637

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., October 3-13, 1909, pp. 9-36, 27-30, 28-29, 31-36.
Tendency to guess right (but not necessarily on the first guess). Pure logic supports the...

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:
A. MS., n.p., February 5, 1912, pp. 1-14.
The comments on Russell’s work are as follows: “… true in the main” and “throughout, however, he betrays insufficient...