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====Excerpt 6.  Peirce (CP 5.448)====

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| Perhaps a more scientific pair of definitions would be

<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>

| that anything is 'general' in so far as the principle of

 

| the excluded middle does not apply to it and is 'vague'

<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>

| in so far as the principle of contradiction does not

 

| apply to it.

<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>

 

| Thus, although it is true that "Any proposition

<p>C.S. Peirce, ''Collected Papers'', CP 5.448</p>

| you please, 'once you have determined its identity',

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| 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.

| 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.

| C.S. Peirce, 'Collected Papers', CP 5.448

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