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