Charles Sanders Peirce
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Charles Sanders Peirce was an American philosopher, logician, and scientist best known as a founder of pragmatism and a pioneer in semiotics and modern logic.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Sanders Peirce canonical | 27 |
| Peirce | 2 |
| C. S. Peirce | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T814489 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Sanders Peirce Context triple: [John Dewey, influencedBy, Charles Sanders Peirce]
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A.
Nelson Goodman
Nelson Goodman was an American philosopher best known for his influential work in logic, the philosophy of science, and aesthetics, particularly his "new riddle of induction" and theories of symbol systems.
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B.
Carl Hempel
Carl Hempel was a prominent 20th-century philosopher of science known for his work on logical empiricism and the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation.
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C.
William James
William James was an American philosopher and psychologist, a leading figure in pragmatism and functional psychology, and one of the most influential thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher and logician known for his work on ontological relativity, the indeterminacy of translation, and the critique of the analytic–synthetic distinction.
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E.
Hans Reichenbach
Hans Reichenbach was a prominent 20th-century philosopher of science known for his influential work on the philosophy of physics, probability, and the foundations of scientific knowledge.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Sanders Peirce Target entity description: Charles Sanders Peirce was an American philosopher, logician, and scientist best known as a founder of pragmatism and a pioneer in semiotics and modern logic.
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A.
Nelson Goodman
Nelson Goodman was an American philosopher best known for his influential work in logic, the philosophy of science, and aesthetics, particularly his "new riddle of induction" and theories of symbol systems.
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B.
Carl Hempel
Carl Hempel was a prominent 20th-century philosopher of science known for his work on logical empiricism and the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation.
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C.
William James
William James was an American philosopher and psychologist, a leading figure in pragmatism and functional psychology, and one of the most influential thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher and logician known for his work on ontological relativity, the indeterminacy of translation, and the critique of the analytic–synthetic distinction.
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E.
Hans Reichenbach
Hans Reichenbach was a prominent 20th-century philosopher of science known for his influential work on the philosophy of physics, probability, and the foundations of scientific knowledge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (83)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chemist
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founder of pragmatism ⓘ human ⓘ logician ⓘ mathematician ⓘ philosopher ⓘ scientist ⓘ semiotician ⓘ |
| academicAdvisor | Benjamin Peirce ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1839-09-10 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1914-04-19 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Milford, Pennsylvania
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surface form:
Milford, Pennsylvania, United States
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| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Lawrence Scientific School ⓘ |
| employer |
Johns Hopkins University
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United States Coast Survey ⓘ |
| era |
19th-century philosophy
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20th-century philosophy ⓘ |
| familyName |
Charles Sanders Peirce
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Peirce
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| father | Benjamin Peirce ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
epistemology
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graph theory ⓘ logic ⓘ mathematics ⓘ measurement theory ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ philosophy ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ probability theory ⓘ semiotics ⓘ statistics ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bertrand Russell
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C. I. Lewis ⓘ Hilary Putnam ⓘ John Dewey ⓘ Karl Popper ⓘ Roman Jakobson ⓘ Susan Haack ⓘ Umberto Eco ⓘ Willard Van Orman Quine ⓘ
surface form:
W. V. O. Quine
William James ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Alexander Bain
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Augustus De Morgan ⓘ G. W. F. Hegel ⓘ George Boole ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to modern logic
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development of existential graphs ⓘ founding pragmatism ⓘ pioneering semiotics ⓘ work on probability and statistics ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| movement |
pragmaticism
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pragmatism ⓘ |
| name | Charles Sanders Peirce self-link ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
Peircean semiotics
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abduction ⓘ categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness ⓘ existential graphs ⓘ fallibilism ⓘ logic of relatives ⓘ pragmatic maxim ⓘ synechism ⓘ theory of inquiry as iterative ⓘ triadic theory of signs ⓘ tychism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
How to Make Our Ideas Clear
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Illustrations of the Logic of Science ⓘ On a New List of Categories ⓘ The Architecture of Theories ⓘ The Fixation of Belief ⓘ The Law of Mind ⓘ The Logic of Relatives ⓘ |
| occupation |
philosophy professor
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research scientist ⓘ |
| religion | Unitarian background ⓘ |
| residence |
Milford, Pennsylvania
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surface form:
Milford, Pennsylvania, United States
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| spouse |
Harriet Melusina Fay
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Juliette Froissy ⓘ |
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Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Peirce
this entity surface form:
C. S. Peirce
this entity surface form:
Peirce
subject surface form:
Pragmatism
subject surface form:
Pragmatism