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Term: 
Convention [in Logic]
Quote: 

A Convention would be a proposition concerning a subject which we imagine to exist as an aid in drawing conclusions concerning our main subject; and any such proposition would be a Convention.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1904). Sketch of Dichotomic Mathematics. MS [R] 4.
References: 
NEM 4:287
Date of Quote: 
1904
URL: 

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