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Meaning
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Title of this Volume Studies In Meaning
By Charles Santiago Sanders Peirce
[The Import of Thought:
An Essay in Two Chapters.]
[The two chapters composing this Essay were first published, without any title for the whole, in
The Popular Science Monthly for November 1877 and Junary 1878. A French version by the
author (the second having in fact, been first written in French on board a steamer in September 1877)
appeared in the Revue Philosophique, Vols VI and VII. They received as little attention as they laid
claim to; but some years later the potent pen of Professor James brought their matter {carat: "chief thesis"} to
the attention of the philosophic world (pressing it, indeed, further than their the tether of their
author {carat: "would reach,"} who continues to acknowledge, not, indeed, the Existence, but yet the Reality, of their Absolute,
nearly as it has been set forth, for example, by Royce in his "The World and the Individual", work not free from
faults of logic, yet valid in the main.) The doctrine of this pair of chapters has {carat: "already"} for some years been called known.
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