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BIRTH
CHARLES PIERCE IS BORN IN CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS -
Illustrations of the Logic of Science Published
From 1877-1878, Peirce published works in the popular science magazine 'Popular Science Monthly', discussing his theories of pragmatism. Here he posed that beliefs are essentially habits of action. He said you could use the sensible characteristics of objects and develop habits of actions using these objects. An example is if object X is harder than object Y, then X will scratch Y. Knowing this, we know that if we ever need to scratch Y we can use X, and if not then we can keep them seperate. -
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LOGIC LECTURES
C.S. Peirce gave lectures on logic at Johns Hopkins University, the closest he ever came to being a tneured logic professor -
First Electric Logical Operations
In 1886, Pierce, in collaboration with Allan Marquand, recognized and designed the first logistical electrical circuit -
DEATH