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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.”

51. “It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.”

52. “A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.”

53. “A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.”

54. “Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness .”

55. “When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness .”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “When an image is said to be singular, it is meant that it is absolutely determinate in all respects. Every possible character, or the negative thereof, must be true of such an image.”

56. “When an image is said to be singular, it is meant that it is absolutely determinate in all respects. Every possible character, or the negative thereof, must be true of such an image.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.”

57. “Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.”

58. “The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.”

59. “Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.”

60. “The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.”

61. “If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.”

62. “Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.”

63. “Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “All human affairs rest upon probabilities, and the same thing is true everywhere. If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted would betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every great fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.”

64. “All human affairs rest upon probabilities, and the same thing is true everywhere. If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted would betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every great fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up.”

65. “Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.”

66. “It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “Are you sure twice two are four? Not at all. A certain percentage of the human race are insane and subject to illusions. It may be you are one of them, and that your idea that twice two is four is a lunatic notion, and your seeming recollection that other people think so, the baseless fabric of a vision.”

67. “Are you sure twice two are four? Not at all. A certain percentage of the human race are insane and subject to illusions. It may be you are one of them, and that your idea that twice two is four is a lunatic notion, and your seeming recollection that other people think so, the baseless fabric of a vision.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “Let it be considered that what is more wholesome than any particular belief is integrity of belief; and that to avoid looking into the support of any belief from a fear that it may turn out rotten is quite as immoral as it is disadvantageous.”

68. “Let it be considered that what is more wholesome than any particular belief is integrity of belief; and that to avoid looking into the support of any belief from a fear that it may turn out rotten is quite as immoral as it is disadvantageous.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .”

69. “Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “The consciousness of a general idea has a certain “unity of the ego” in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.”

70. “The consciousness of a general idea has a certain “unity of the ego” in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval.”

71. “If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, “It lightens and it thunders ,” is conjunctive, “It lightens or it thunders” is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician .”

72. “A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, “It lightens and it thunders ,” is conjunctive, “It lightens or it thunders” is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician .”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “The elements of every concept enter into logical thought at the gate of perception and make their exit at the gate of purposive action; and whatever cannot show its passports at both those two gates is to be arrested as unauthorized by reason.”

73. “The elements of every concept enter into logical thought at the gate of perception and make their exit at the gate of purposive action; and whatever cannot show its passports at both those two gates is to be arrested as unauthorized by reason.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.”

74. “A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “What the pragmatist has his pragmatism for is to be able to say, Here is a definition and it does not differ at all from your confusedly apprehended conception because there is no practical difference.”

75. “What the pragmatist has his pragmatism for is to be able to say, Here is a definition and it does not differ at all from your confusedly apprehended conception because there is no practical difference.”

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