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Birth September 10th 1839
Charles Sanders Peirce was born on September 10th 1839 to Benjamin Peirce a mathematician and astronomer and Sarah Hunt Mills Daughter of a Senator. -
Pragmatism
The pragmatic maxim is achieving three levels of clarity on a subject, item, or idea. Charles Sanders Peirce understood that you can find the solution to a problem I a simple and practical way. Being a scientist and not just a philosopher he could deduce problems and find an explanation. Charles coined the term pragmatism which would in turn help the world to start looking at understanding the world around them and give explanations.
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Tychism
The universe is so big that odds are an Earth like planet was bound to happen at some point. The thesis written by Charles dictates that absolute chance is a factor in the universe and that the laws of the universe are universal. Nature can not just be undone and reset to the likeness that humans would want. Everything can be explained. This was Charles contribution to cosmology although going against the likes of Einstein.
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Death Date
Charles Sanders Peirce died from cancer in Milford, Pennsylvania. He left 80,000 unpublished manuscripts that his wife sold to Harvard.