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  1. 68 Copy quote. It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague. Charles Sanders Peirce. Easy, Uncertain, Certain. Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”. 30 Copy quote. Three elements go to make up an idea.

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    • “Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.”
    • “In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel.
    • “There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.” ― C.S. Peirce.
    • “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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  3. 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. Charles Sanders Peirce. Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the ...

    • On The Algebra of Logic
    • Mathematical Monads
    • The Architecture of Theories
    • The Doctrine of Necessity Examined
    • The Law of Mind
    • Pragmatism and Pragmaticism
    • A Neglected Argument For The Reality of God
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    "On The Algebra of Logic : A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation" in The American Journal of Mathematics7 (1885), p. 180 - 202 Any character or proposition either concerns one subject, two subjects, or a plurality of subjects. For example, one particle has mass, two particles attract one another, a particle revolves about the line joining tw...

    Mathematical Monads (23 January 1889) published in Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition(1982) edited by Max Harold Fisch, Vol. 6 As the mathematics are now understood, each branch — or, if you please, each problem, — is but the study of the relations of a collection of connected objects, without parts, without any distinctive char...

    First published in The MonistVol. I, No. 2 (January 1891), p. 161 Of the fifty or hundred systems of philosophy that have been advanced at different times of the world's history, perhaps the larger number have been, not so much results of historical evolution, as happy thoughts which have accidently occurred to their authors. An idea which has been...

    First published in The MonistVol. II, No. 3 (April 1892), p. 321
    When I have asked thinking men what reason they had to believe that every fact in the universe is precisely determined by law, the first answer has usually been that the proposition is a "presuppos...

    First published in The MonistVol. II, No. 4 (July 1892), p. 533 In an article published in The Monist for January, 1891, I endeavored to show what ideas ought to form the warp of a system of philosophy, and particularly emphasized that of absolute chance. In the number of April, 1892, I argued further in favor of that way of thinking, which it will...

    Lectures on Pragmatismdelivered in Cambridge, Massachusetts (26 March - 17 May 1903) A certain maxim of Logic which I have called Pragmatism has recommended itself to me for diverse reasons and on sundry considerations. Having taken it as my guide for most of my thought, I find that as the years of my knowledge of it lengthen, my sense of the impor...

    "A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God" in the Hibbert JournalVII:90 (1908) The word "God," so "capitalised" (as we Americans say), is the definable proper name, signifying Ens necessarium; in my belief Really creator of all three Universes of Experience. Some words shall herein be capitalised when used, not as vernacular, but as terms define...

    Do not block the way of inquiry.
    The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.
    The ordinary logic has a great deal to say about genera and species, or in our nineteeth century dialect, about classes. Now a class is a set of objects comprising all that stand to one another in...
    Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.
    To say, therefore, that thought cannot happen in an instant, but requires a time, is but another way of saying that every thought must be interpreted in another, or that all thought is in signs.
  4. Charles Sanders Peirce. 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. Charles Sanders Peirce. Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is ...

  5. Essence Quotes. The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols; so that it is wrong to say that a good language is important to good thought, merely; for it is the essence of it. Believe Quotes. We cannot begin with complete doubt.

  6. Quotes by others about Charles Sanders Peirce (1) Quantity is that which is operated with according to fixed mutually consistent laws. Both operator and operand must derive their meaning from the laws of operation.

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