Peirce

Famous quotes containing the word peirce:

    The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real. That is the way I would explain reality.
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

    The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will never be convinced that dangerous reasoning ought not to be suppressed in some way.
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

    Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)