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Birthdate
Charles Sanders Peirce was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the son of Benjamin Peirce, a Harvard University mathematics professor (Peters, 2011). -
Alma mater
By the year of 1863, Peirce had received a degree in philosophy and chemistry from Harvard University. -
Semiotics was coined by Peirce
Which involves three subjects, the sign, its object and its interpretant. This was pertinent into Peirce understanding logic as formal semiotic. -
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Career
Charles Sanders Peirce was employed by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, surveying and carrying out geodetic investigations. He also taught mathematics intermittently at Harvard University. -
Pragmatism coined by Peirce
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Popular Science Monthly
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Popular Works
Some of Peirce's most popular works were two articles in a series of six entitled Illustrations of the Logic of Science and was published in in Popular Science Monthly. The first article entitled " The Fixation of Belief", Peirce defended in a manner of consistent with not accepting naive realism. The superiority of the scientific method over other methods of overcoming doubt and "fixing belief." The second article Peirce defended a "pragmatic" notion of clear concepts ( Burch, n.d). -
What is Pragmatism?
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Death (April 19, 1914)
Charles Sanders Peirce died in Milford, Pennsylvania. After his death his widow wife sold unpublished manuscripts to Harvard University.
