It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact whe…

Charles Sanders Peirce
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It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893), p.142, Indiana University Press
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