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====Excerpt 6. Peirce (CP 5.448)====
====Excerpt 6. Peirce (CP 5.448)====
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<p>Perhaps a more scientific pair of definitions would be that anything is ''general'' in so far as the principle of the excluded middle does not apply to it and is ''vague'' in so far as the principle of contradiction does not apply to it.</p>
<p>Perhaps a more scientific pair of definitions would be that anything is ''general'' in so far as the principle of the excluded middle does not apply to it and is ''vague'' in so far as the principle of contradiction does not apply to it.</p>
<p>Thus, although it is true that "Any proposition you please, ''once you have determined its identity'', is either true or false"; yet ''so long as it remains indeterminate and so without identity'', it need neither be true that any proposition you please is true, nor that any proposition you please is false.</p>
<p>Thus, although it is true that “Any proposition you please, ''once you have determined its identity'', is either true or false”; yet ''so long as it remains indeterminate and so without identity'', it need neither be true that any proposition you please is true, nor that any proposition you please is false.</p>
<p>So likewise, while it is false that "A proposition ''whose identity I have determined'' is both true and false", yet until it is determinate, it may be true that a proposition is true and that a proposition is false.</p>
<p>So likewise, while it is false that “A proposition ''whose identity I have determined'' is both true and false”, yet until it is determinate, it may be true that a proposition is true and that a proposition is false.</p>
<p>C.S. Peirce, ''Collected Papers'', CP 5.448</p>
<p align="right">C.S. Peirce, ''Collected Papers'', CP 5.448</p>
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====Excerpt 7. Peirce (CP 5.448, n. 1)====
====Excerpt 7. Peirce (CP 5.448, n. 1)====