“Indeed, even this last moment will be recognized like the rest, at least, be just beginning to be so.”

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The Law of Mind (1892)

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

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Context: Now, let there be an indefinite succession of these inferential acts of comparative perception; and it is plain that the last moment will contain objectively the whole series. Let there be, not merely an indefinite succession, but a continuous flow of inference through a finite time; and the result will be a mediate objective consciousness of the whole time in the last moment. In this last moment, the whole series will be recognized, or known as known before.

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