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15549ECharles Sanders PeirceEffort supposes resistance.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
15552ECharles Sanders PeirceEvery new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.
Judging
Judging
15573ECharles Sanders PeirceThe universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character.
Universe
Universe
15548ECharles Sanders PeirceIt is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
Knowledge
Knowledge
15551ECharles Sanders PeirceWe do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong.
Thinking
Thinking
15536ICharles Sanders PeirceL'identità di un uomo consiste nella coerenza di ciò che fa e di ciò che pensa.
Social identity
Social identity
15557ECharles Sanders PeirceBy an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
15571ECharles Sanders PeirceMathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.
Mathematics
Mathematics
15565ECharles Sanders PeirceThe definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
15556ECharles Sanders PeirceThere is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.
Thinking
Thinking
15546ECharles Sanders PeirceThe one primary and fundamental law of mental action consists in a tendency to generalisation.
Mind
Mind
15547ICharles Sanders PeirceLa definizione di definizione è, in fondo, proprio quello che la massima di pragmatismo esprime.
Philosophy
Philosophy
15534ICharles Sanders PeirceOgni uomo è pienamente convinto dell'esistenza della Verità, altrimenti non farebbe alcuna domanda.
Truth
Truth
15581ECharles Sanders PeirceEvery man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.
Truth
Truth
15574ECharles Sanders PeirceAnother characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
Mathematics
Mathematics
15566ECharles Sanders PeirceMathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.
Mathematics
Mathematics
15561ECharles Sanders PeirceUnless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.
Nature
Nature
15562ECharles Sanders PeirceBad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.
Logics
Logics
15542ICharles Sanders PeircePoche persone si dedicano allo studio della logica, perché ognuno crede di essere abbastanza capace nell'arte di ragionare.
Logics
Logics
15541ECharles Sanders PeirceFew persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already.
Logics
Logics