All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. …

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All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce, Kenneth Laine Ketner (1992). Reasoning and the logic of things: the Cambridge conferences lectures of 1898, Harvard Univ Pr
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All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce, Kenneth Laine Ketner (1992). Reasoning and the logic of things: the Cambridge conferences lectures of 1898, Harvard Univ Pr

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