Effort supposes resistance. - Charles Sanders Peirce

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Effort supposes resistance.

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About Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce [pronounced like purse] (10 September 1839 – 19 April 1914) was an American philosopher, chemist and polymath, who is now remembered as a pioneer of the field of semiotics and, with the formulation of the pragmatic maxim, the founder of the philosophies of Pragmatism and Pragmaticism. He was the son of the mathematician Benjamin Peirce.

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Alternative Names: Charles Peirce • Charles S. Peirce • Charles Sanders Santiago Peirce • CSP
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