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‘Would-be’ (pub. 06.09.15-18:37). 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-pragmatism-29.
Term: 
Would-be
Quote: 

…no agglomeration of actual happenings can ever completely fill up the meaning of a “would-be.”

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907). Pragmatism. MS [R] 318.
References: 
EP 2:402; CP 5.467
Date of Quote: 
1907
URL: 

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