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1908 Nov 18
Logic
I.i. 4

person which conforms to these two conditions: firstly, that it shall have
resulted from that person's having many times behaved in one general
way under circumstances of one general kind; and secondly, that it shall
consist in a tendency, on the part of that person, after the fulfilment of the first condition, to beh to
behave in the same general way under circumstances of the same general
kind. This makes the habit to consist in an impulse or psychic cause of
a resemblance between a persons actions after repetitions and his actions
during those repetitions. The sense in which I use a word but
slightly differs from that, except that I disregard the both the
manner in which the habit has been established and the difference between
the behavior of a person and that of a thing. I mean by a habit the
accord of the behavior of a person a power of acting through the a person's soul
and tending to make his behavior accord with, or conform to, a general idea.