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ONT Re: Flex




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Note 3

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| §6.  Relatives of Second Intention (cont.)
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| By 'logical' reflexion, I mean the observation of thoughts in their expressions.
| Aquinas remarked that this sort of reflexion is requisite to furnish us with
| those ideas which, from lack of contrast, ordinary external experience fails
| to bring into prominence.  He called such ideas 'second intentions'.
| It is by means of 'relatives of second intention' that the general
| method of logical representation is to find completion.
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| Charles Sanders Peirce, 'Collected Papers', CP 3.490.

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