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Letter "C" » Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes
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«If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust»
Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
(Astronomer, Inventor, Logician, Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
betray, immortal, immortals, perfectly, seeing, trusted
«All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.»
Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
(Astronomer, Inventor, Logician, Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
definite, evolution, proceeds, vague
«In the matter of ideas the public prefer the cheap and nasty»
Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
(Astronomer, Inventor, Logician, Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist, Writer)
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nasty, the matter
«Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic»
Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
(Astronomer, Inventor, Logician, Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Logic
| Keywords:
practical, reasoning, The Foundation
«Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false»
Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
(Astronomer, Inventor, Logician, Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
cherished, positively, vague
«The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character»
Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
(Astronomer, Inventor, Logician, Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
presumed, presumes, presume to, presuming
«The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.»
Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
(Astronomer, Inventor, Logician, Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist, Writer)
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