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The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.

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I think that I have succeeded in making it clear that this doctrine gives room for explanations of many facts which without it are absolutely and hopelessly inexplicable; and further that it carries along with it the following doctrines: first, a logical realism of the most pronounced type; second, objective idealism; third, tychism, with its consequent thoroughgoing evolutionism. We also notice that the doctrine presents no hindrences to spiritual influences, such as some philosophies are felt to do.

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Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce
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Born: September 10, 1839
Died: April 19, 1914 (aged 74)
Bio: Charles Sanders Peirce was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". He was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years.
Known for:
  1. The essential Peirce
  2. Peirce on signs
  3. Chance, love, and logic
  4. Philosophical Writings of Peirce
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idea, time, mind, general, feeling, law, science, thought, second, consciousness, logic, future, moment, infinitesimal, objects

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