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Term: 
Scholastic Realism
Quote: 

…the doctrine of scholastic realism neither is that all concepts are real (which would be the ne plus ultra of absurdity) nor that any concept is perfectly real; but that some concepts are real in some measure.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1908 [c.]). A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (G). MS [R] 842.
References: 
MS [R] 842:132
Date of Quote: 
1908 [c.]
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