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Fallacies in pure mathematics

From "Reasoning" in _Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology_, vol. 2 (1902), pp. 426-28

from CP 2.778

Fallacies in pure mathematics have gone undetected for many centuries. It is to ideal states of things alone — or to real states of things as ideally conceived, always more or less departing from the reality — that deduction applies.

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