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“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.”

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Book:Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce : Edited by Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss: Principles of philosophy and Elements of logic
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“Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that is the only way I can describe what I see. That is a proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image which I make intelligible in part by means of a statement of fact. This statement is abstract; but what I see is concrete.”

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Author:Charles Sanders Peirce
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