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‘Complete Argument’ (pub. 23.03.18-15:16). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-algebra-logic-8.
Term: 
Complete Argument
Quote: 

…a leading principle, which contains no fact not implied or observable in the premisses, is termed a logical principle, and the argument it governs is termed a complete, in contradistinction to an incomplete, argument, or enthymeme.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1880). On the Algebra of Logic. American Journal of Mathematics, 3, 15-57.
References: 
W 4:167; CP 3.166
Date of Quote: 
1880
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