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Term: 
Real
Quote: 

Reality […] is a special mode of being, the characteristic of which is that things that are real are whatever they really are, independently of any assertion about them.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1902). Minute Logic: Chapter IV. Ethics (Logic IV). MS [R] 434.
References: 
CP 6.349
Date of Quote: 
1902
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