Gerald Bivens

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It is hard for man to understand this, because he persists in identifying himself with his will, his power over the animal organism, with brute force. Now the organism is only an instrument of thought. But the identity of a man consists in the consistency of what he does and thinks, and consistency is the intellectual character of a thing; that is, is its expressing something.1

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  1. Charles S. Peirce, "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities," in Publication (City of publication: Publisher, Year published), Page range.