Fashioning Episodes Through Virtual Habit: The Efficacy of Pre-Lived Experience

• Authors: West Donna E.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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 determinations invites immediate implementation of action interventions, or recommendations 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.

Keywords

EN

Peirce; virtual habit; episodic memory; dicisign; proposition

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 81-99

Dates

published

2018-03-30

Contributors

author

West Donna E.

• State University of New York at Cortland, NY, USA

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Identifiers

ISSN

2300–0066 (print)

ISSN

2577–0314 (online)

DOI

10.26385/SG.070104