Philosophy
1839 to 1914, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
The founder of pragmatism and modern semiotics - meaning lies in practical effects, inquiry is fallible yet self-correcting, and truth is the opinion fated to be agreed on by all who investigate.
Start learning Charles →Peirce’s founding rule of pragmatism - that the whole meaning of any conception lies in its conceivable practical effects - and the three grades of clearness that lead up to it, grounded in his theory that a belie…
Peirce’s account of how we settle opinion: inquiry begins in the irritation of doubt and ends in the calm of belief, and he ranks four methods of fixing belief - tenacity, authority, the a priori method, and the m…
Peirce’s logic of discovery and his theory of knowledge’s limits: abduction , the reasoning that forms explanatory hypotheses and is the only inference that introduces a new idea, paired with fallibilism , t…
Peirce’s semiotics - his general theory of signs - built on the triadic relation of sign, object, and interpretant, and his famous classification of signs into icons (which resemble), indices (which connect), and…
Peirce’s pragmatic account of truth and reality: truth is the opinion fated to be ultimately agreed upon by all who investigate, and the real is its object - a reality independent of what any particular mind think…
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