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.


"Man's Glassy Essence" in The Monist, Vol. III, No. 1 (October 1892)

Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...