Definition of Charles Peirce

1. Noun. United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914).

Exact synonyms: Charles Sanders Peirce, Peirce
Generic synonyms: Logician, Logistician, Philosopher

Lexicographical Neighbors of Charles Peirce

Charles Kay Ogden
Charles Kettering
Charles L'Enfant
Charles Lamb
Charles Laughton
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Liston
Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Charles Louis de Secondat
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Charles M. Schulz
Charles Martin Hall
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Charles Menninger
Charles Munroe Schulz
Charles Peirce (current term)
Charles Percy Snow
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Charles Ringling
Charles River
Charles Robert Darwin
Charles Robert Redford
Charles Schulz
Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stuart
Charles Taze Russell
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Charles VII
Charles Watson-Wentworth

Literary usage of Charles Peirce

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1918)
"The importance of the work of the late Charles Peirce is coming to be more and more clearly recognized. ..."

2. The Lives of Eminent Philadelphians, Now Deceased by Henry Simpson (1859)
"Charles Peirce. BY IL PEIRCE, MD Charles Peirce was born in Kittery, Maine, on the 29th of July, 1770. At an early age, he entered the office of the late ..."

3. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"The art object would be only of antiquarian interest.1 The work of Charles Peirce in the United States and Ferdinand de Saussure in Switzerland established ..."

4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1908)
"It was first introduced into philosophy by Mr. Charles Peirce in 1878. In an article entitled 'How to Make Our Ideas Clear,' in the Popular Science Monthly ..."

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