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Definite

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1905 | Issues of Pragmaticism | EP 2:351; CP 5.449

In those respects in which a sign is not vague, it is said to be definite, and also with a slightly different mode of application, to be precise, a meaning probably due to praecisus having been applied to curt denials and refusals.