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Quote from ‘Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences (Logic II)’

Term: 
Metaphysics
Quote: 

… metaphysics, whose attitude toward the universe is nearly that of the special sciences (anciently, physics was its designation), from which it is mainly distinguished, by its confining itself to such parts of physics and of psychics as can be established without special means of observation. But these are very peculiar parts, extremely unlike the rest.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1902). Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences (Logic II). MS [R] 427
Date: 
1902 [c.]
References: 
CP 1.282
Citation: 
‘Metaphysics’ (pub. 04.02.13-20:53). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-minute-logic-chapter-ii-prelogical-notions-section-i-classification-science-1.
Posted: 
Feb 04, 2013, 20:53 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 02, 2016, 16:07 by Mats Bergman