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Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Charles Sanders Peirce
Ontology, Logic, Mathematics
Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.

Charles Sanders Peirce
Secret, Mathematics, Mathematical
Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.182, Indiana University Press

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

Charles Sanders Peirce
Believe, Branches, Mathematics
Writings of Charles. Sanders Peirce Volume 3 (p. 279)

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