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Consistent with Peirce’s pragmatic maxim (see Sect. 6.3.6) and triadic metaphysics (Sect. 6.2.2), it is here proposed that

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Ji, S. (2012). What Is Life?. In: Molecular Theory of the Living Cell. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2152-8_16

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