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‘Possibility’ (pub. 11.08.17-10:10). 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-regenerated-logic-7.
Term: 
Possibility
Quote: 

…possibility may be understood in many senses; but they may all be embraced under the definition that that is possible which, in a certain state of information, is not known to be false.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1896). The Regenerated Logic. The Monist, 7(1), 19-40.
References: 
CP 3.442
Date of Quote: 
1896
URL: 

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