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Peirce

noun

United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880). Synonym: Benjamin Peirce.

United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914). Synonyms: Charles Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce.

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... there must be at least 13,000 bodies—one in 20,000,000 cubic miles—large enough to make a light visible to the naked eye, and forty times that number capable of revealing themselves to telescopic vision. Professor Peirce is about to publish, as the startling result of his investigations, "that the heat which the earth receives directly from meteors is the same in amount which it receives from the sun by radiation, and that the ...

— Recreations in Astronomy - With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work • Henry Warren

... philosopher of eminent originality, Mr. Charles Sanders Peirce, has rendered thought a service by disentangling from the particulars of its application the principle by which these men were instinctively guided, and by singling it out as fundamental and giving to it a Greek name. He calls it the principle of PRAGMATISM, and ...

— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

Words linked to "Peirce" : philosopher, astronomer, logician, logistician, uranologist, stargazer, mathematician, Charles Sanders Peirce