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Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes
Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes
Charles Sanders Peirce
American
Philosopher
Born:
Sep 10
,
1839
Died:
Apr 19
,
1914
Action
Belief
Future
Man
Whatever
Will
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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.
Charles Sanders Peirce
Man
Sometimes
Will
Harmony
Philosophers
Strike
Inquiring
System
Out
Finding
Facts
Most
Scientific
Been
Than
Intent
Less
Belief
It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
Charles Sanders Peirce
Man
Envy
Impossible
Out
Must
Know
Although
How
Turn
Dismiss
Reason
Who
Last
All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.
Charles Sanders Peirce
Definite
Evolution
Know
Proceeds
Vague
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
Future
Character
Quality
Law
Must
Embodied
Something
Determining
Habit
Except
Never
How
Continue
Been
Endless
May
Being
Capable
Might
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