‘Vague’ (pub. 21.08.17-14:04). 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-topics-chapter-i-singular-systems-0.
Quote:
…an assertion is comprehensive in so far as it extends the person to whom it is addressed a certain latitude in the interpretation of it; it is vague in so far as it reserves to the utterer of it a similar latitude.
Source:
Peirce, C. S. (1903 [c.]). Topics. Chapter I. Singular Systems. MS [R] 151.
URL:
http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-topics-chapter-i-singular-systems-0