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Charles Sanders Peirce
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It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). Collected Papers of Charles Sanders 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
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 … ▶
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these rare minds on such work is like running a steam en … ▶
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 … ▶
The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

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