[…] it has never been in my power to study anything, — math… - Charles Sanders Peirce

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[…] it has never been in my power to study anything, — mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semiotic.

Charles Sanders Peirce

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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 • Peirce • C. S. Peirce

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The old dualistic notion of mind and matter, so prominent in Cartesianism, as two radically different kinds of substance, will hardly find defenders to-day. Rejecting this, we are driven to some form of hylopathy, otherwise called monism.

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

Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts.

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