...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be.
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit. - Charles Sanders Peirce
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.
- Charles Sanders Peirce
Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art of reas… - Charles Sanders Peirce
Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art of reas…
Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment. - Charles Sanders Peirce
Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.
My language is the sum total of myself. - Charles Sanders Peirce
My language is the sum total of myself.
All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals. - Charles Sanders Peirce
All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.
The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty. - Charles Sanders Peirce
The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.
The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs. - Charles Sanders Peirce
The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.
We cannot begin with complete doubt. - Charles Sanders Peirce
We cannot begin with complete doubt.
The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea. - Charles Sanders Peirce
The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.
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