“Fourth, this supreme law, which is celestial and living harmony, does not so much as demand that the special ideas shall surrender their peculiar arbitrariness and caprice entirely; for that would be self-destructive. It only requires that they influence and be influenced by one another.”

—  Charles Sanders Peirce

The Law of Mind (1892)

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American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist 1839–1914

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