SUO: Re: Determination
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| To determine means to make a circumstance different
| from what it might have been otherwise. For example,
| a drop of rain falling on a stone determines it to be
| wet, provided the stone may have been dry before. But
| if the fact of a whole shower half an hour previous is
| given, then one drop does not determine the stone to be
| wet; for it would be wet, at any rate. (CE 1, 245-246).
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| Charles Sanders Peirce,
|"Harvard Lecture on Kant, 1865",
|'Writings of Charles S. Peirce:
| A Chronological Edition, Volume 1, 1857-1866',
| Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press,
| Bloomington, IN, 1982.
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