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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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“It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.”

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

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

“Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.”

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Book:Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Exact logic (Published papers).. The Simplest mathematics

Source: Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Exact logic (Published papers).. The Simplest mathematics

“...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be.”

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Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.”

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.”

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

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

“The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.”

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Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.”

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Author:Charles Sanders Peirce