Quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce

A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.

Facts

Looks

Might

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.

Character

Law

Quality

A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody,that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. That sign which it creates I call the interpretant of the first sign. The sign stands for something, its object. It stands for that object, not in all respects, but in reference to a sort of idea, which I have sometimes called the ground of the representamen.

Addresses

Ideas

Mind

A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.

Disappointment

Long

Truth

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

Definite

Evolution

Vague

All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they can be applied…. This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.

Mean

Real

Truth

All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.

Achievement

Individual

Mind

Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.

Math

Perfect

Stress

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

Science

Success

Thinking

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

Facts

Foundation

Sides

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Beach

Belief

Believe

Block

Brain

Branches

Character

Children

Cognition

Conscious

Definite

Determination

Differences

Different

Disappointment

Doe

Doubt

Effects

Ego

Envy

Errors

Essence

Essentials

Events

Evolution

Excellence

Exercise

Expectations

Facts

Fate

Feelings

Finals

Foundation

Giving

Heart

Humans

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Ifs

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Quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce

A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.

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.

A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.

Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

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