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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>
 
<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>
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<p>C.S. Peirce, ''Chronological Edition'', CE 1, 245&ndash;246.
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<p>C.S. Peirce, ''Chronological Edition'', CE 1, 245&ndash;246</p>
    
<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>
 
<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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