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"Well," says James, "I hate logic." I reply that I am sorry, but
a philosophy ought not to be based upon that sentiment.

But though these gentlemen are unable to formulate
their own logic, we have no difficulty at all in formulating it
for them. They sometimes think that it is continuity only that they
object to. They are mistaken. Continuity is not necessarily
involved in what they pronounce absurd. What they
find absurd is the endless. The very idea of the future, as endless,
is to them absurd, though they may not at once see that it is.
In short, though they think in signs like the rest of us, they do not
really think in general signs, but only in the such imperfect
interpretations of them as can be made into images and
slight inhibited efforts.

Logic has three branches. The first which
treats of the constitution of signs, what for example it is that