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The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

Book by Charles Sanders Peirce · 3 quotes · Men, Belief, Ifs

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The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893) Quotes

“The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will never be convinced that dangerous reasoning ought not to be suppressed in some way.”

“Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art of reasoning of the time when it was written; and each chief step in science has been a lesson in logic.”

“Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.”