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====Excerpt 13.  Peirce (CE 1, 245&ndash;246)====
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| To determine means to make a circumstance different from what
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<p>To determine means to make a circumstance different from what it might have been otherwise.  For example, a drop of rain falling on a stone determines it to be wet, provided the stone may have been dry before.  But if the fact of a whole shower half an hour previous is given, then one drop does not determine the stone to be wet;  for it would be wet, at any rate.</p>
| it might have been otherwise.  For example, a drop of rain
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| falling on a stone determines it to be wet, provided the
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<p>C.S. Peirce, ''Chronological Edition'', CE 1, 245&ndash;246.
| stone may have been dry before.  But if the fact of
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| a whole shower half an hour previous is given,
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<p>Charles Sanders Peirce, "Harvard Lectures ''On the Logic of Science''" (1865), ''Writings of Charles S. Peirce : A Chronological Edition, Volume 1, 1857&ndash;1866'', Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.</p>
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| be wet;  for it would be wet, at any rate.
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| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, pp. 245-246.
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| Charles Sanders Peirce, "Harvard Lectures 'On the Logic of Science'", (1865),
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|'Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 1, 1857-1866',
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| Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.
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