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Charles Sanders Peirce ( purss; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist. He is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". He was known for his works in logic, mathematics, philosophy, scientific methodology, and semiotics. Peirce was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Peirce died on April 19, 1914 in Milford, Pennsylvania at the age of 74.

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  • Charles Sanders Peirce's birthplace building

    Peirce's birthplace. Now part of Lesley University's Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences.

  • Charles S. Peirce house PA1

    Arisbe in 2011

  • JulietteAndCharles

    Juliette and Charles by a well at their home Arisbe in 1907

  • Peirce Quincuncial Projection 1879

    "The World on a Quincuncial Projection", 1879. Peirce’s projection of a sphere onto a square keeps angles true except at four isolated points on the equator, and has less scale variation than the Mercator projection. It can be tessellated; that is, multiple copies can be joined together continuously edge-to-edge.

  • Charles Sanders Peirce in 1859

    Charles Sanders Peirce in 1859

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