„The word »God,« so »capitalised« (as we Americans say), is the definable proper name, signifying Ens necessarium; in my belief Really creator of all three Universes of Experience.“ (p. 3) #Peirce #God #EnsNecessarium
„The »Actual« is that which is met with in the past, present, or future.“ (p. 4) #Peirce #Actual
„An »Experience« is a brutally produced conscious effect that contributes to a habit, self-controlled, yet so satisfying, on deliberation, as to be destructible by no positive exercise of internal vigour.“ (p. 4) #Peirce #experience
„Thus each person, so far as his sense-data are concerned, lives in a private world. This private world contains its own space, or rather spaces, for it would seem that only experience teaches us to correlate the space of sight with the space of touch and with the various other spaces of other senses. This multiplicity of private spaces, however, though interesting to the psychologist, is of no great importance in regard to our present problem, since a merely solipsistic experience enables us to correlate them into the one private space which embraces all our own sense-data.“ (p. 285) #Russell #PrivateWorld
„The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.“ (p. 11) #Dewey #renewal #LivingThings