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The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and

The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.

Charles Sanders Peirce
Common Sense, Quality, Levels
Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.113, Indiana University Press

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

Charles Sanders Peirce
Character, Law, Quality
Charles Sanders Peirce, Charles Hartshorne, Paul Weiss, Arthur Walter Burks (1960). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce : Edited by Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss: Principles of philosophy and Elements of logic”

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