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Term: 
Mathematics
Quote: 

It was Benjamin Peirce, whose son I boast myself, that in 1870 first defined mathematics as “the science which draws necessary conclusions.” This was a hard saying at the time; but today, students of the philosophy of mathematics generally acknowledge its substantial correctness.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1902). Minute Logic: Chapter III. The Simplest Mathematics. MS [R] 429.
References: 
CP 4.229
Date of Quote: 
1902
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