Charles Sanders Peirce ( PURSS; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) 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 thirty years. Today he is appreciated largely for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, scientific methodology, and semiotics, and for his founding of pragmatism.
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10 September 1839 Cambridge, Massachusetts
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19 April 1914 (aged 74) Milford, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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