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great things have been accomplished during my life-time
by such extensions. I mention my early foreseeing that it
would be so, because it led me, in studying the methods
which I saw pursued by scientific men, mathematicians,
and other thinkers, although to seek to generalize any
conception of their methods, as far as it could be done
without destroying their forcefulness of those methods.
this statement will serve to show about how much
its to be expected from this part of my work.

With Speculative Rhetoric, logic in the sense of Normative
Semeotic is brought to a close. But now we have to
examine whether there be a doctrine of signs correspond-
ing to [Hegel's?] objective logic; that is to say, whether there
be a life in Signs, so that, - the requisite vehicle
being present, - they will go through a certain order
of develepment, and if so, whether this development