SUO: Re: Determination
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| Another advantage of this definition is that it saves us
| from the blunder of thinking that a sign is indeterminate
| simply because there is much to which it makes no reference;
| that, for example, to say, "C.S. Peirce wrote this article",
| is indeterminate because it does not say what the color of
| the ink used was, who made the ink, how old the father of
| the ink-maker when his son was born, nor what the aspect
| of the planets was when that father was born. By making
| the definition turn upon the interpretation, all that is
| cut off.
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| Charles Sanders Peirce, 'Collected Papers', CP 5.448, note 1
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