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− | ====Excerpt 13==== | + | ====Excerpt 13. Peirce (CE 1, 245–246)==== |
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− | | To determine means to make a circumstance different from what
| + | <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
| + | <p>C.S. Peirce, ''Chronological Edition'', CE 1, 245–246. |
− | | stone may have been dry before. But if the fact of
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− | | a whole shower half an hour previous is given,
| + | <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> |
− | | then one drop does not determine the stone to
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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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