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Category Archive: Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “A quality is something capable of…”

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

March 5, 2021 1839, American, Charles Sanders Peirce, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “Every new concept first comes to…”

Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

November 25, 2020 1839, American, Charles Sanders Peirce, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “Bad reasoning as well as good…”

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

January 25, 2020 1839, American, Charles Sanders Peirce, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “The final upshot of thinking is…”

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

January 23, 2020 1839, American, Charles Sanders Peirce, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied…”

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

January 2, 2020 1839, American, Charles Sanders Peirce, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “It is impossible not to envy…”

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

November 24, 2019 1839, American, Charles Sanders Peirce, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient…”

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

January 30, 2019 1839, American, Charles Sanders Peirce, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “All the evolution we know of…”

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

December 26, 2018 1839, American, Charles Sanders Peirce, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “It will sometimes strike a scientific…”

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

October 16, 2018 1839, American, Charles Sanders Peirce, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Charles Sanders Peirce Quote: “The essence of belief is the…”

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

October 5, 2018 1839, American, Charles Sanders Peirce, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10
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