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- ↑ Peirce, C. S. (1929), "The Founding of Pragmatism", The Hound and Horn: A Harvard Miscellany v. II, n. 3, April–June, pp. 282–5 (see 283–4). Reprinted as "Historical Affinities and Genesis" in Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce , v. 5, paragraphs 11–13 (see 12–13), dated by the editors as circa 1906. Also see Shook, John R. (n.d.)
- ↑ Peirce, Charles (1960). Buchler, Justus (ed.). The Philosophy of Peirce, Selected Writings. Harcourt, Brace and Company. p. 269.
- ↑ Menand (2001), pp. 201-2.
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- ↑ Menand (2001)