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1908 Nov 30
Logic
I.i. 10

until it is so published as to be open to the criticism sympathetic but
severe, criticism of the members of that social group which consists that comprises
of all those persons who devote their lives to the prosecution of similar
inquiries; and nothing no result is regarded as "Established"
until it is admitted with positive or negative unanimity by the
that group.

I think I cannot do better than to take Science in general in the
sense of the collective and cooperative activity of those who
devote themselves to the inquiries of a general kind. But it
is more difficult to define a science. I mean, if I can, to have my
use of it denote a living widely scattered fact, and not to refer be a
monument of dead discoveries not yet to refer to the knowledge of the
to what was discovered in past centuries except so far as they
are actively future of which I can only prophesy that it would