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Charles Sanders Peirce

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All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.


— Charles Sanders Peirce


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Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.


— Charles Sanders Peirce


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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.


— Charles Sanders Peirce


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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.


— Charles Sanders Peirce


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Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.


— Charles Sanders Peirce


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It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.


— Charles Sanders Peirce


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The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.


— Charles Sanders Peirce


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Did you know about Charles Sanders Peirce?

He applied in 1902 to the newly formed Carnegie Institution for a grant to write a systematic book of his life's work. Sylvester who came to admire Peirce's work on mathematics and logic). In 1888 President Grover Cleveland appointed him to the Assay Commission.

In 1934 the philosopher Paul Weiss called Peirce "the most original and versatile of American philosophers and America's greatest logician". Charles Sanders Peirce (pron.

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