SUO: Re: Determination
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| That whatever action is brute, unintelligent, and unconcerned
| with the result of it is purely dyadic is either demonstrable
| or is too evident to be demonstrable. But in case that dyadic
| action is merely a member of a triadic action, then so far from
| its furnishing the least shade of presumption that all the action
| in the physical universe is dyadic, on the contrary, the entire and
| triadic action justifies a guess that there may be other and more marked
| examples in the universe of the triadic pattern. No sooner is the guess
| made than instances swarm upon us amply verifying it, and refuting the
| agnostic position; while others present new problems for our study.
| With the refutation of agnosticism, the agnostic is shown to be
| a superficial neophyte in philosophy, entitled at most to
| an occasional audience on special points, yet infinitely
| more respectable than those who seek to bolster up what
| is really true by sophistical arguments -- the traitors
| to truth that they are ...
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| Charles Sanders Peirce, CP 6.332
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