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‘Collection’ (pub. 11.09.14-13:20). 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-fourth-curiosity-0.
Term: 
Collection
Quote: 

…while numbers may on occasion be, or represent, multitudes, they can never be collections, since collections are not grades of any kind, but are single things.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907). The Fourth Curiosity. MS [R] 200.
References: 
CP 4.663
Date of Quote: 
1907
URL: 

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