The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the …

Charles Sanders Peirce
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The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols; so that it is wrong to say that a good language is important to good thought, merely; for it is the essence of it. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser (1998). The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings, p.263, Indiana University Press
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