It is ...easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficientl… - Charles Sanders Peirce

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It is ...easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

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

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How can a past idea be present?... it can only be going, infinitesimally past, less past than any assignable past date. We are thus brought to the conclusion that the present is connected to the past by a series of real infinitesimal steps.

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