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Term: 
Pure Mathematics
Quote: 

Mathematics will here be understood to be the science which sets up hypotheses with a view to doing what it proceeds to do, namely, to deduce their consequences, and to study the methods of doing so. Pure Mathematics will be understood to be a kind of mathematics which, as far as possible, eliminates from its hypotheses all that does not concern the forms of deduction of consequences from them.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1903 [c.]). On Dyadics: the Simplest Possible Mathematics. MS [R] 3.
References: 
MS [R] 3:1
Date of Quote: 
1903 [c.]
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