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‘Logic’ (pub. 23.09.14-10:52). 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-lecture-i-r-4.
Term: 
Logic
Quote: 

At the outset, we define the principal purpose of logic to be to learn how to conduct any inquiry. [—]

In my opinion, the purpose of logic must ultimately come to be recognized as that of studying all that will be true of signs, or representations, independently of what particular signs have actually been created.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 452.
References: 
MS [R] 452:5
Date of Quote: 
1903
URL: 

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