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‘Perfect Continuum’ (pub. 30.03.15-16:53). 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-some-amazing-mazes.
Term: 
Perfect Continuum
Quote: 

…my notion of the essential character of a perfect continuum is the absolute generality with which two rules hold good, first, that every part has parts; and second, that every sufficiently small part has the same mode of immediate connection with others as every other has. This manifestly vague statement will more clearly convey my idea (though less distinctly) than the elaborate full explication of it could.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1908). Some Amazing Mazes. The Monist, 18, 227-241.
References: 
CP 4.642
Date of Quote: 
1908
URL: 

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