Charles Sanders Peirce
Also known as Charles Peirce, Charles S. Peirce, Charles Sanders Santiago Peirce, CSP
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
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Charles Sanders Peirce was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist who lived from 1839 to 1914 and made important contributions to how we understand reasoning and meaning. His work laid the groundwork for modern logic and the philosophical approach called pragmatism, which focuses on the practical consequences of ideas rather than abstract theory alone.
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- 10 September 1839
- Died
- 19 April 1914
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- Essays in the philosophy of science
- Illustrations of the logic of science
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- パース著作集
- Summa philosophie naturalis noviter recognita & a vitijs purgata ac pristine integritate restituta
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Charles Sanders Peirce (/pɜːrs/ PURSS; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". According to philosopher Paul Weiss, writing in 1934, Peirce was "the most original and versatile of America's philosophers and America's greatest logician". Bertrand Russell wrote in 1959, "he was one of the most original minds of the later nineteenth century and certainly the greatest American thinker ever".
Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for thirty years, Peirce made major contributions to logic, such as theories of relations and quantification. C. I. Lewis wrote, "The contributions of C. S. Peirce to symbolic logic are more numerous and varied than those of any other writer—at least in the nineteenth century." For Peirce, logic also encompassed much of what is now called epistemology and the philosophy of science. He saw logic as the formal branch of semiotics or study of signs, of which he is a founder, which foreshadowed the debate among logical positivists and proponents of philosophy of language that dominated 20th-century Western philosophy. Peirce's study of signs also included a tripartite theory of predication.
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