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Why the delay? What were the police doing investigating themselves when that was not their role?


Gareth Peirce

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CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practica...
CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.
CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becom...
GARETH J. NELSON The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descenda...
GARETH J. NELSON