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Term: 
Mathematics
Quote: 

Mathematics is the most abstract of all the sciences. For it makes no external observations, nor asserts anything as a real fact. When the mathematician deals with facts, they become for him mere “hypotheses”; for with their truth he refuses to concern himself. The whole science of mathematics is a science of hypotheses; so that nothing could be more completely abstracted from concrete reality.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1896). The Regenerated Logic. The Monist, 7(1), 19-40.
References: 
CP 3.428
Date of Quote: 
1896
URL: 

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