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10 quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce General Charles Sanders Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography Philosophical Categories (Peirce) Semiotic elements and classes of signs Pragmatic maxim Pragmaticism Synechism Tychism Classification of the sciences Biographical Juliette Peirce Charles Santiago Sanders Peirce Abbreviations B:x: Brent, Joseph (1998), Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life, 2nd edition, page x CDPT: Commens Dictionary of Peirce's Terms CP x.y:...
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Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

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Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

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A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A... →

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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a... →

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The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give... →

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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... →

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All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

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It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what... →

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The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action... →

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