Peirce Papers

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    Thus we may define the real as that whose characters are independent of what anybody may think them to be.
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

    Yesterday the Electoral Commission decided not to go behind the papers filed with the Vice-President in the case of Florida.... I read the arguments in the Congressional Record and can’t see how lawyers can differ on the question. But the decision is by a strictly party vote—eight Republicans against seven Democrats! It shows the strength of party ties.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)