The Essence Of Belief Is The Establishment

If We Are To Define Science, ... It Does Not Consist So Much In Knowing, Nor Even In "organized Knowledge," As It Does In Diligent Inquiry Into Truth For Truth's Sake, Without Any Sort Of Axe To Grind, Nor For The Sake Of The Delight Of Contemplating It, But From An Impulse To Penetrate Into The Reason Of Things.

The Essence Of Belief Is The Establishment Of A Habit.

The Consciousness Of A General Idea Has A Certain "unity Of The Ego" In It, Which Is Identical When It Passes From One Mind To Another. It Is, Therefore, Quite Analogous To A Person, And Indeed, A Person Is Only A Particular Kind Of General Idea.

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.

It Is Important To Understand What I Mean By Semiosis. All Dynamic Action, Or Action Of Brute Force, Physical Or Psychical, Either Takes Place Between Two Subjects, Whether They React Equally Upon Each Other, Or One Is Agent And The Other Patient, Entirely Or Partially, Or At Any Rate Is A Resultant Of Such Actions Between Pairs. But By "semiosis" I Mean, On The Contrary, An Action, Or Influence, Which Is, Or Involves, A Cooperation Of Three Subjects, Such As A Sign, Its Object, And Its Interpretant, This Tri-relative Influence Not Being In Any Way Resolvable Into Actions Between Pairs.