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'guiding principle'=df

“The particular habit of mind which governs this or that inference may be formulated in a proposition whose truth depends on the validity of the inferences which the habit determines; and such a formula is called a guiding principle of inference."1

Notes

  1. Charles S. Peirce, "The Fixation of Belief," in Publication (City of publication: Publisher, Year published), Page range.