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‘Theoric Transformation’ (pub. 14.10.15-18:41). 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-64.
Term: 
Theoric Transformation
Quote: 

It is not quite so true as Kant thought it to be that deduction is purely explicative; but the amplificative element that a certain kind of deduction, called theo’ric transformation, affords, consists, after all, only in new forms of conceiving old facts.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907). Pragmatism. MS [R] 318.
References: 
MS [R] 318:30
Date of Quote: 
1907
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