Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mer…

Charles Sanders Peirce
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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, p.289, Harvard University Press
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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, p.289, Harvard University Press

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