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Feeling which has not yet emerged into immediate consciousness is already affectible and already affected.
The Law of Mind (1892)
The first category, then, is Quality of Feeling, or whatever is such as it is positively and regardless of aught else.
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)
Philosophy, as I understand the word, is a positive theoretical science, and a science in an early stage of development.
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.
The next simplest feature that is common to all that comes before the mind, and consequently, the second category, is the element of Struggle.
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)
It has never been in my power to study anything … except as a study of semeiotic.
Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts.
Collected Papers (1931)
When a man is about to build a house, what a power of thinking he has to do, before he can safely break ground!
The Architecture of Theories (1891)
By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.
The only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature and for uniformity in general is to suppose them results of evolution. This supposes them not to be absolute, not to be obeyed precisely.
The Architecture of Theories (1891)
A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, "It lightens and it thunders," is conjunctive, "It lightens or it thunders" is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician.
Mathematical Monads (1889)
Such signs are always abstract and general, because habits are general rules to which the organism has become subjected.
On The Algebra of Logic (1885)
The law of mind only makes a given feeling more likely to arise.
The Architecture of Theories (1891)
The law of habit exhibits a striking contrast to all physical laws in the character of its commands.
The Architecture of Theories (1891)
Any character or proposition either concerns one subject, two subjects, or a plurality of subjects.
On The Algebra of Logic (1885)
The one primary and fundamental law of mental action consists in a tendency to generalisation.
The Architecture of Theories (1891)
The first character of a general idea so resulting is that it is living feeling.
The Law of Mind (1892)
If the sign were not related to its object except by the mind thinking of them separately, it would not fulfil the function of a sign at all.
On The Algebra of Logic (1885)
Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason.
The Architecture of Theories (1891)
Three conceptions are perpetually turning up at every point in every theory of logic, and in the most rounded systems they occur in connection with one another.
The Architecture of Theories (1891)