"Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative in the recency of the past. The third element is the tendency of an idea to bring along other ideas with it."

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Source : Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, Harvard University Press

Charles Sanders Peirce

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