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1. "Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment." ~ Charles Sanders Peirce

2. "All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite." ~ Charles Sanders Peirce

3. "Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else." ~ Charles Sanders Peirce

4. "Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic." ~ Charles Sanders Peirce

5. "It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last." ~ Charles Sanders Peirce

6. "Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing." ~ Charles Sanders Peirce

7. "A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be." ~ Charles Sanders Peirce

8. "It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system." ~ Charles Sanders Peirce

9. "The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise." ~ Charles Sanders Peirce

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