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Charles Sanders Peirce was an American philosopher, logician, and scientist, born on September 10, 1839, and died on April 19, 1914. Known as the founder of modern symbolic logic, Peirce's philosophical ideas have had a profound impact on fields such as logic, philosophy of science, and cognitive science.

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Famous Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

“The consciousness of a general idea has a certain "unity of the ego" in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.”

Mind Kind Persons Ideas Certain Consciousness Particular Ego Unity Identical

Book:Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic

Source: Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic

“All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they can be applied.... This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.”

Ifs Giving Mean Real Enough Reality Truth Law Science Certain Process Opinion Objects Solutions Conception Followers Investigation Realism Truth And Reality

Book:Chance, love, and logic philosophical essays

Source: Chance, love, and logic philosophical essays

“Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.”

May Certain Courses Natural Results Fate Events Particular Circumstances Vary

Book:1872-1878

Source: 1872-1878

“I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.”

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“The a priori method is distinguished for its comfortable conclusions. It is the nature of the process to adopt whatever belief weare inclined to, and there are certain flatteries to the vanity of man which we all believe by nature, until we are awakened from our pleasing dream by rough facts.”

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Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an agreement between the ideas which suggest themselves to the human mind and those which are concerned in the laws of nature.”

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Book:Collected Papers

Source: Collected Papers

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

Certain Easy Uncertain Vague

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce