How to Conceive Virtual Entities: Peirce’s Proposal

Perspectives on Science 32 (3):269-277 (2024)
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The term “virtual entities” has a long tradition and a variety of meanings. My short article focuses on one particular meaning, as clearly defined by Charles Sanders Peirce in 1902. I will discuss the definition he provided and touch on the wide resonance it had and still has in science.

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Friedrich Steinle
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