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====Excerpt 5. Peirce (CP 5.447)====
====Excerpt 5. Peirce (CP 5.447)====
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<p>Accurate writers have apparently made a distinction between the ''definite'' and the ''determinate''. A subject is ''determinate'' in respect to any character which inheres in it or is (universally and affirmatively) predicated of it, as well as in respect to the negative of such character, these being the very same respect. In all other respects it is ''indeterminate''. The ''definite'' shall be defined presently.</p>
<p>Accurate writers have apparently made a distinction between the ''definite'' and the ''determinate''. A subject is ''determinate'' in respect to any character which inheres in it or is (universally and affirmatively) predicated of it, as well as in respect to the negative of such character, these being the very same respect. In all other respects it is ''indeterminate''. The ''definite'' shall be defined presently.</p>
<p>A sign (under which designation I place every kind of thought, and not alone external signs), that is in any respect objectively indeterminate (i.e., whose object is undetermined by the sign itself) is objectively 'general' in so far as it extends to the interpreter the privilege of carrying its determination further.</p>
<p>A sign (under which designation I place every kind of thought, and not alone external signs), that is in any respect objectively indeterminate (i.e., whose object is undetermined by the sign itself) is objectively 'general' in so far as it extends to the interpreter the privilege of carrying its determination further.</p>
<p>''Example:'' "Man is mortal." To the question, What man? the reply is that the proposition explicitly leaves it to you to apply its assertion to what man or men you will.</p>
<p>''Example:'' “Man is mortal.” To the question, What man? the reply is that the proposition explicitly leaves it to you to apply its assertion to what man or men you will.</p>
<p>A sign that is objectively indeterminate in any respect is objectively ''vague'' in so far as it reserves further determination to be made in some other conceivable sign, or at least does not appoint the interpreter as its deputy in this office.</p>
<p>A sign that is objectively indeterminate in any respect is objectively ''vague'' in so far as it reserves further determination to be made in some other conceivable sign, or at least does not appoint the interpreter as its deputy in this office.</p>
<p>''Example:'' "A man whom I could mention seems to be a little conceited." The ''suggestion'' here is that the man in view is the person addressed; but the utterer does not authorize such an interpretation or ''any'' other application of what she says. She can still say, if she likes, that she does ''not'' mean the person addressed.</p>
<p>''Example:'' “A man whom I could mention seems to be a little conceited.” The ''suggestion'' here is that the man in view is the person addressed; but the utterer does not authorize such an interpretation or ''any'' other application of what she says. She can still say, if she likes, that she does ''not'' mean the person addressed.</p>
<p>Every utterance naturally leaves the right of further exposition in the utterer; and therefore, in so far as a sign is indeterminate, it is vague, unless it is expressly or by a well-understood convention rendered general.</p>
<p>Every utterance naturally leaves the right of further exposition in the utterer; and therefore, in so far as a sign is indeterminate, it is vague, unless it is expressly or by a well-understood convention rendered general.</p>
<p>C.S. Peirce, ''Collected Papers'', CP 5.447</p>
<p align="right">C.S. Peirce, ''Collected Papers'', CP 5.447</p>
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====Excerpt 6. Peirce (CP 5.448)====
====Excerpt 6. Peirce (CP 5.448)====
