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Term: 
Idioscopy
Quote: 

Idioscopy is that science which is occupied in making new observations and which uses these to find out what further it can by inference.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1904). Reason's Conscience: A Practical Treatise on the Theory of Discovery; Wherein logic is conceived as Semeiotic. MS [R] 693.
References: 
NEM 4:191; HP 2:825
Date of Quote: 
1904
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