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... universal . In the case of the vague universal the boundaries of the range are not fixed ; in other words , its meaning is always liable to change ; whereas the precise universal never varies in meaning . Peirce once aptly remarked that ...
... universal . In the case of the vague universal the boundaries of the range are not fixed ; in other words , its meaning is always liable to change ; whereas the precise universal never varies in meaning . Peirce once aptly remarked that ...
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... universal . The difference between my universal grass and the botanist's is that mine is a vague universal , while his is explicit . But both are generic . The mind's natural movement in thinking , that is to say , is from the ...
... universal . The difference between my universal grass and the botanist's is that mine is a vague universal , while his is explicit . But both are generic . The mind's natural movement in thinking , that is to say , is from the ...
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... universal is not affected by the mathematician's ignorance as to the number of instances of the universal . Vagueness in this extensional sense is irrelevant . Any vagueness on the intensional side , how- ever , would immediately mar ...
... universal is not affected by the mathematician's ignorance as to the number of instances of the universal . Vagueness in this extensional sense is irrelevant . Any vagueness on the intensional side , how- ever , would immediately mar ...
Contents
CORRESPONDING FELLOWS 1945 | 4 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir John Clapham | 12 |
THE POETRY OF THOMAS GRAY Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 43 |
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