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‘Informed Depth’ (pub. 28.11.15-11:03). 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-chap-xi-logical-breadth-and-depth-5.
Term: 
Informed Depth
Quote: 

By the informed depth of a term I mean all the real characters in contradistinction to mere synonimous names which can be predicated of it with logical truth in the supposed state of information no character being counted twice over knowingly. The depth like the breadth will be certainly doubtful…

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1873). Chap. XI. On Logical Breadth and Depth. MS [R] 384; MS [W] 233.
References: 
W 3:100
Date of Quote: 
1873
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