Charles Sanders Peirce

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chemist founder of pragmatism human logician mathematician philosopher scientist semiotician

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.

Aliases (2)

Peirce ×2
C. S. Peirce ×1

Statements (83)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	chemist → founder of pragmatism → human → logician → mathematician → philosopher → scientist → semiotician →
academicAdvisor	Benjamin Peirce →
birthDate	1839-09-10 →
birthPlace	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
deathDate	1914-04-19 →
deathPlace	Milford, Pennsylvania, United States →
educatedAt	Harvard University → Lawrence Scientific School →
employer	Johns Hopkins University → United States Coast Survey →
era	19th-century philosophy → 20th-century philosophy →
familyName	Peirce →
father	Benjamin Peirce →
fieldOfWork	epistemology → graph theory → logic → mathematics → measurement theory → metaphysics → philosophy → philosophy of language → philosophy of science → probability theory → semiotics → statistics →
givenName	Charles →
influenced	Bertrand Russell → C. I. Lewis → Hilary Putnam → John Dewey → Karl Popper → Roman Jakobson → Susan Haack → Umberto Eco → W. V. O. Quine → William James →
influencedBy	Alexander Bain → Augustus De Morgan → G. W. F. Hegel → George Boole → Immanuel Kant →
knownFor	contributions to modern logic → development of existential graphs → founding pragmatism → pioneering semiotics → work on probability and statistics →
language	English →
movement	pragmaticism → pragmatism →
name	Charles Sanders Peirce →
notableIdea	Peircean semiotics → 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 → 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 → research scientist →
religion	Unitarian background →
residence	Milford, Pennsylvania, United States →
spouse	Harriet Melusina Fay → Juliette Froissy →

Referenced by (14)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
C. K. Ogden → Charles Hartshorne → Clarence Irving Lewis → Democracy and Education → Experience and Nature → Human Nature and Conduct → John Dewey → Logic: The Theory of Inquiry → William James →	influencedBy
George Berkeley → Thomas Reid ("C. S. Peirce") →	influenced
Charles Sanders Peirce ("Peirce") →	familyName
Pierce ("Peirce") →	hasVariant
Charles Sanders Peirce →	name