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Charles Sanders Peirce
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Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce, Morris Raphael Cohen, John Dewey (1968). Chance, love, and logic philosophical essays, p.28, Charles Sander Peirce
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All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce (2009). The Logic of Interdisciplinarity: The Monist-series
We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct. ✨ Charles Sanders … ▶
The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions. ✨ The Philosophy of Peirce: Selected Writings.
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce (1933). Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Exact logic (Pub … ▶
Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). Collected Papers, p. … ▶

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce, Morris Raphael Cohen, John Dewey (1968). Chance, love, and logic philosophical essays, p.28, Charles Sander Peirce

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