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→Excerpt 13. Peirce (CE 1, 245–246)
<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>
<p>C.S. Peirce, ''Chronological Edition'', CE 1, 245–246</p>
<p align="right">C.S. Peirce, ''Chronological Edition'', CE 1, 245–246</p>
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