Fashioning Episodes Through Virtual Habit: The Efficacy of Pre-Lived Experience
In MS 620 (1909), C. S. Peirce crafts his ultimate statement regarding habit-formation. Here he defines and illustrates the influence of specific vivid virtual habits with the objective of changing future beliefs/actions. The specificity of the protoplans as deter-minations invites immediate impleme...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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International Étienne Gilson Society
2018-03-01
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| Series: | Studia Gilsoniana |
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| Online Access: | http://www.gilsonsociety.com/files/081-099-West.pdf |
| Summary: | In MS 620 (1909), C. S. Peirce crafts his ultimate statement regarding habit-formation. Here he defines and illustrates the influence of specific vivid virtual habits with the objective of changing future beliefs/actions. The specificity of the protoplans as deter-minations invites immediate implementation of action interventions, or recommenda-tions to change action approaches. In this way, virtual habits transcend mere possibility for implementation of the action strategy; their vividity and specificity uniquely qualify them as soon to be actualized episodes. |
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| ISSN: | 2300-0066 |