Charles Sanders Peirce

American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)

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Lived 1839–1914, aged 75United States

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1839–1914
Aged 75

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Updated 2026-05-29

Peirce shaped American philosophy through pragmatism and groundbreaking work in logic and mathematics during the late 1800s. Russell and Weiss both crowned him the era's most original thinker, though his fame peaked mostly in academic circles.

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Charles Sanders Peirce was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". According to philosopher Paul Weiss, writing in 1934, Peirce was "the most original and versatile of America's philosophers and America's greatest logician". Bertrand Russell wrote in 1959, "he was one of the most original minds of the later nineteenth century and certainly the greatest American thinker ever".

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