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.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Sanders Peirce canonical | 27 |
| Peirce | 2 |
| C. S. Peirce | 1 |
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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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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1914-04-19 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Milford, Pennsylvania
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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
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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 ⓘ
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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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Milford, Pennsylvania, United States
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| spouse |
Harriet Melusina Fay
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Juliette Froissy ⓘ |
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Pragmatism
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Pragmatism