Peirce Sentence Examples

Peirce, Science of the Stars, p. 84.

Young men of talent, on the contrary, found his instruction most stimulating, and after Bowditch's death in 1838 Peirce stood first among American mathematicians.

Hence the "principle of Peirce" may be formulated as being that "every truth has practical consequences, and these are the test of its truth."

Peirce in discussions with William James at Harvard University, and its meaning was expounded by him in an article on "How to make our Ideas clear" in the Popular Science Monthly for January 1878.

Some suffered serious psychological problems and required psychiatric hospitalization, said Gareth Peirce, a lawyer who represented some of the suspects.

On 12 October 1640 Dennis's apprentice mercer, Richard Peirce, was admitted free.

The Signs themselves Charles Sanders Peirce is an American philosopher recognized as the founder of modern semiotics.

Hence, when the undulating telephonic currents were made to pass through the apparatus, the constant variation of the friction of the spring caused the deflexions of the diaphragm to vary in unison with the variation of the electric The extreme smallness of the magnets which might be successfully employed was first demonstrated by Professor Peirce of Brown University, Providence, R.I.

In science the state can boast of John Winthrop, the most eminent of colonial scientists; Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford); Nathaniel Bowditch, the translator of Laplace; Benjamin Peirce and Morse the electrician; not to include an adopted citizen in Louis Agassiz.

Peirce for the theories which make chance an objective factor in the process of the Universe.

Peirce (1673-1726) of Exeter, was to leave dissenting congregations to determine their own orthodoxy; the General Baptists had already (1700) condoned defections from the common doctrine.