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====Excerpt 2. Peirce (CE 1, 217)====
====Excerpt 2. Peirce (CE 1, 217)====
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<p>Logic is an analysis of forms not a study of the mind. It tells ''why'' an inference follows not ''how'' it arises in the mind. It is the business therefore of the logician to break up complicated inferences from numerous premisses into the simplest possible parts and not to leave them as they are.</p>
<p>Logic is an analysis of forms not a study of the mind. It tells ''why'' an inference follows not ''how'' it arises in the mind. It is the business therefore of the logician to break up complicated inferences from numerous premisses into the simplest possible parts and not to leave them as they are.</p>
<p>C.S. Peirce, ''Chronological Edition'', CE 1, 217</p>
<p align="right">C.S. Peirce, ''Chronological Edition'', CE 1, 217</p>
<p>Charles Sanders Peirce, "Harvard Lectures ''On the Logic of Science''" (1865), ''Writings of Charles S. Peirce : A Chronological Edition, Volume 1, 1857–1866'', Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.</p>
<p>Charles Sanders Peirce, “Harvard Lectures ''On the Logic of Science''” (1865), ''Writings of Charles S. Peirce : A Chronological Edition, Volume 1, 1857–1866'', Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.</p>
====Excerpt 3. Peirce (CE 1, 169–170)====
====Excerpt 3. Peirce (CE 1, 169–170)====
