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   --New York Herald Tribune

No one can fail to be grateful for the thorough and patient intelligence which has made Peirce's work so available.
   --The Nation

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   --The Philosophical Review.

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   --John Dewey

Arthur W. Burks is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Read More by Charles Sanders Peirce:

• Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898
• Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes I and II, Principles of Philosophy and Elements of Logic
• Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes III and IV, Exact Logic (Published Papers) and The Simplest Mathematics
• Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes V and VI, Pragmatism and Pragmaticism and Scientific Metaphysics