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Yu Ziran added a note to 199 in MS 317-318 (1907) - Pragmatism - Notes and Drafts in C. S. Peirce Manuscripts, saying “Prag 22
seems to be true. So far as it is true, it is a very useful truth. But great reserve should be exercised in admitting its exact truth. For the reaction-machine is a purely physical apparatus, and similarities which govern its action must...”
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Yu Ziran added a note to 198 in MS 317-318 (1907) - Pragmatism - Notes and Drafts in C. S. Peirce Manuscripts, saying “Prag 21
the similar reactions have taken place. This statement is utterly indefinite in that it fails to specify the kinds of similarity intended. It is capable of logical proof that, in an unlimited universe of marks, any two/individual objects ...”
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Yu Ziran added a note to 197 in MS 317-318 (1907) - Pragmatism - Notes and Drafts in C. S. Peirce Manuscripts, saying “Prag 20
therefore active. The consequence is that if an excitation continues, the reaction will usually become, for a while, more and more violent, changing its mode several times, until some reactional motion happens to cause the cessation of t...”
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Yu Ziran added a note to 196 in MS 317-318 (1907) - Pragmatism - Notes and Drafts in C. S. Peirce Manuscripts, saying “… a mind may, with advantage, the roughly defined as a sign creatory in connection with a reaction machine. The chief properties of a reaction machine are as follows:
1; A reaction machine is very delicately susceptible, and in a vast variety of ...”
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Yu Ziran added a note to 195 in MS 317-318 (1907) - Pragmatism - Notes and Drafts in C. S. Peirce Manuscripts, saying “Prag 19
moulded sign had been the interpreter. The meaning of the mouldes sign being conveyed to its interpreter, became the meaning of a thought in that quasi-mind; and as there conveyed in a thought-sign required an interpreter, the interpreter...”
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Yu Ziran added a note to 194 in MS 317-318 (1907) - Pragmatism - Notes and Drafts in C. S. Peirce Manuscripts, saying “Prag 18
a psychical dose of energy, but a significant meaning. In that modified, and as yet very misty, sense, then, we may continue to use the italicized words of the following: " A sign is whatever there may be whose intent is to mediate b...”
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