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1908 Nov 12
Logic
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I have been so careful in defining 'Determination', for the
reason that I have to use it in defining an even more important expression,
'Determination after' anything. But before defining this
I must call your attention to the most important conception in the
whole range of thought, which that which is expressed by the word
'After.' For there is no science and no department of life in which
it does not fulfill a commanding office. Words have different kinds
of Meanings. I use the term Meaning as a general name for the
office of any word, sentence, paragraph, book, symptom, token,
diagram, portrait, or in short of any sort of sign. In
order to call your point out to you a somewhat surprising
property of the word after and the 'After' and of the concept that
word expresses, I shall have to call your attention to three different
kinds of Meaning instances of all three which I attach to different

1908 Nov 12
Logic
32

I have been so careful in defining 'Determination', for the
reason that I have to use it in defining an even more important expression,
'Determination after' anything. But before defining this
I must call your attention to the most important conception in the
whole range of thought, which that which is expressed by the word
'After.' For there is no science and no department of life in which
it does not fulfill a commanding office. Words have different kinds
of Meanings. I use the term Meaning as a general name for the
office of any word, sentence, paragraph, book, symptom, token,
diagram, portrait, or in short of any sort of sign. In
order to call your point out to you a somewhat surprising
property of the word after and the 'After' and of the concept that
word expresses, I shall have to call your attention to three different
kinds of Meaning instances of all three which I attach to different