Quote from "Topics: Chapter I. Singular Systems"

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‘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.

Term:

Vague

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.

References:

MS [R] 151

Date of Quote:

1903 [c.]

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-topics-chapter-i-singular-systems-0