Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, sometimes known as “the father of pragmatism”. He was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years. Today he is appreciated largely for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, scientific methodology, and semiotics, and for his founding of pragmatism.
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It is… easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
—Charles Sanders Peirce
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
—Charles Sanders Peirce
Topics: Science, Intelligence
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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