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Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Age: 74 †
Born: 1839
Born: September 10
Died: 1914
Died: April 19
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All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.
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Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.
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Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.
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We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong.
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It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.
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It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.
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If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
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Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering for there is quite as much, or more, that is mysterious and calculated to awaken scientific curiosity in the intercourse with God, and it [is] a problem quite analogous to that of theology.
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Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus theoretically, is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian sense. In practice, and in fact, mathematics is not exempt from that liability to error that affects everything that man does.
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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
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The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.
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Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.
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The idea does not belong to the soul it is the soul that belongs to the idea.
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The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.
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We cannot begin with complete doubt.
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Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics but experience shows that these men beyond all others are held in an iron vice of metaphysical theory, because by theories that they have never called in question.
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I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.
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Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling only no imagination is mere .
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The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
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Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.
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