Peirce

[ purs, peers ]

/ pɜrs, pɪərs /

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noun

Benjamin, 1809–80, U.S. mathematician.

Charles San·ders

[san-derz], /ˈsæn dərz/, 1839–1914, U.S. philosopher, mathematician, and physicist.

a male given name.

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Words nearby Peirce

Pei, peignoir, Peipus, Peiraeus, Peiraievs, Peirce, pejoration, pejorative, pekan, peke, pekepoo

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How to use Peirce in a sentence

Peirce later called the experience of dealing with the MPAA “devastating.”
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Before that, Mr. Peirce himself (in 1878) had applied the method to the proper way of conceiving and defining objects.
Essays in Experimental Logic|John Dewey
Mr. Peirce explained that he took the term "pragmatic" from Kant, in order to denote empirical consequences.
Essays in Experimental Logic|John Dewey
So far as insulation is concerned, Mr. Peirce's experiments show that it is far below most kinds of wood.
On Laboratory Arts|Richard Threlfall

Peirce was intended to act as trustee while the partnership lasted.
A Source Book in American History to 1787|Various
For Peirce a doctrine could be perfectly clear and yet false.
The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey|Delton Loring Geyer

British Dictionary definitions for Peirce

Peirce

/ (pɪəs) /

noun

Charles Sanders. 1839–1914, US logician, philosopher, and mathematician; pioneer of pragmatism

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