Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

• Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

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• It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.

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• There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

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• It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

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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, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

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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 rise.

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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 belief is most in harmony with their system.

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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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• Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

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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 satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

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

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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 quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

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Birth:	10th September, 1839
Death:	19th April, 1914
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Logician, Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist

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Charles Sanders Peirce was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist. He was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years. An innovator in mathematics, statistics, philosophy, research methodology, and various sciences, Peirce considered himself, first and foremost, a logician. Webster's Biographical Dictionary said in 1943 that Peirce was "now regarded as the most original thinker and greatest logician of his time."  On April 20, 1877 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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