SUO: Re: Determination
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| Perhaps a more scientific pair of definitions would be
| that anything is 'general' in so far as the principle of
| the excluded middle does not apply to it and is 'vague'
| in so far as the principle of contradiction does not
| apply to it.
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| Thus, although it is true that "Any proposition
| you please, 'once you have determined its identity',
| is either true or false"; yet 'so long as it remains
| indeterminate and so without identity', it need neither
| be true that any proposition you please is true, nor that
| any proposition you please is false.
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| So likewise, while it is false that "A proposition 'whose
| identity I have determined' is both true and false", yet
| until it is determinate, it may be true that a proposition
| is true and that a proposition is false.
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| Charles Sanders Peirce, 'Collected Papers', CP 5.448
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