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... metaphysics, even bad metaphysics, really rests on observations, whether consciously or not; and the only reason that this is not universally recognized is that it rests upon kinds of phenomena with which every man’s experience is so saturated that he pays no particular attention to them. - Charles Sanders Peirce
Attribution: Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), U.S. philosopher, logician. Manuscript written 1898. “The Logic of Events,” Collected Papers, vol. 6, para. 2, Harvard University Press (1934).

Categories: Logician, Metaphysics, Observation, Philosopher

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