... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to…

Charles Sanders Peirce
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... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893), p.182, Indiana University Press
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