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is gifted with power of understanding sufficient for the conduct of life. This brings him, for testing the Hypothesis, to taking his stand upon Pragmatism, which implies faith in common-sense and in instinct, though only as they issue from the cupel-furnace of measured criticism. In short, he will say that the N.A. is the First Stage of a scientific inquiry, resulting in a Hypothesis of the very highest plausibility, whose ultimate test must lie in its value in the self-controlled growth of man's conduct of life.

C.S. Peirce
Milford, Pennsylvania

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