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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.]
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