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Peirce   /pɪrs/   Listen
Peirce

noun
1.
United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880).  Synonym: Benjamin Peirce.
2.
United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914).  Synonyms: Charles Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce.






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... pronunciation. Dr. Jones, the self-taught Platonist of Jacksonville, Illinois, interpreted Plato. Quite a throng of his disciples, mostly women, had followed him from Illinois and swelled the numbers of the Summer School. Once Professor Benjamin Peirce, the great Harvard mathematician, came over from Cambridge, and read us one of his Lowell Institute lectures, on the Ideality of Mathematics. He had a most distinguished presence and an eye, as was said, ...
— Four Americans - Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman • Henry A. Beers



Words linked to "Peirce" :   stargazer, astronomer, logician, mathematician, logistician, Charles Peirce, philosopher, uranologist, Benjamin Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce



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