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‘Induction’ (pub. 14.10.15-18:50). 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-65.
Term: 
Induction
Quote: 

As for induction (in my sense of this term) or the experimental method, it consists only in putting very definite questions to Nature, to which Dame Nature only replies, either by a curt “No,” or else by a dubious and provisional “Well.” No vestige, no scrap, of a new idea can possibly come from that source.

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

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