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Peirce   /pɪrs/   Listen
Peirce

noun
1.
United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880).  Synonym: Benjamin Peirce.
2.
United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914).  Synonyms: Charles Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce.





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"Peirce" Quotes from Famous Books



... will let the bearer, John Broson, Ride in your car to Peirce, and give him all the Instructions that you ...
— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton
... contributors. Of those who might have been met at some of the monthly gatherings in its earlier days I may mention Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Motley, Whipple, Whittier; Professors Agassiz and Peirce; John S. Dwight; Governor Andrew, Richard H. Dana, Junior, Charles Sumner. It offered a wide gamut of intelligences, and the meetings were noteworthy occasions. If there was not a certain amount of "mutual admiration" among some of those I have mentioned ...
— Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


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


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