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New Light on Peirce's Conceptions of Retroduction, Deduction, and Scientific Reasoning

  • CP, followed by volume and paragraph number: Peirce (1931–1958).
  • EP 2, followed by page number: Peirce (1998).
  • MS, followed by manuscript number and, when available, page number: unpublished manuscripts in the Houghton Library, Harvard University. MS enumeration according to Robin (1967).
  • NEM, followed by volume and page number: Peirce (1976).
  • W, followed by volume and page number: Peirce (1982–2009).

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