Charles S. Peirce, Selected Writings

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Peirce in the opinion of many authorities was the most profound and original philosopher that America has produced.

A master of exact science, our foremost logician, the founder of pragmatism, Peirce was one of the most remarkable and versatile minds of the 19th century, whose scattered writings made important contributions to such varied fields of logic, mathematics, geodesy, religion, astronomy, chemistry, physics, psychology, history of science, metaphysics, education, semeiotics, and more.

Considered by William James the most original thinker of their generation, he exerted a tremendous influence on James, Josiah Royce, John Dewey, C.

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Lewis, Ernst Schröder, among many others.