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

Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce

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Charles Sanders Peirce

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. more

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“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 .”

May Individual Taken Example Statements Pairs Mathematician Thunder Connecting

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

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

“When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness .”

Mind Firsts May Littles Matter Character Cases Objects Simplest

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.”

Men Understanding Natural Chance Bent Understanding Nature

Book:The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings

Source: The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings

“The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic.”

Mind Differences Mankind Normal Intellectual Function Importance Regard Majority Optimistic Pessimistic

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

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

“Effort supposes resistance.”

Effort Resistance

Book:The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings

Source: The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings

“Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object.”

Whole Might Effects Objects Practicals Conception

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

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

“Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .”

Imagination Mere Trifling

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.”

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Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.”

Ifs Running Blood Jew

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