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“The reflected world is the conquest of calm.”

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French philosopher known for his work in epistemology, poetics, and the philosophy of science. His writings have had a profound impact on 20th-century philosophy, particularly in understanding human cognition and the scientific method. more

“It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either takes place between two subjects, whether they react equally upon each other, or one is agent and the other patient, entirely or partially, or at any rate is a resultant of such actions between pairs. But by "semiosis" I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign, its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into actions between pairs.”

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Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.”

Persons Effects Objects Determine Determined Former Latter

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic .”

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Book:Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

Source: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

“The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.”

Bottom Definitions Maxims Pragmatism

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.”

Thinking Mean Objects

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, "It lightens and it thunders ," is conjunctive, "It lightens or it thunders" is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician .”

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Book:Writings of Charles S. Peirce: 1857-1866

Source: Writings of Charles S. Peirce: 1857-1866

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