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The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

Topics: Action Belief Beliefs Different Different Beliefs Distinguished Essence Establishment Give Habit Modes Rise Which

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It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

Topics: Been Belief Facts Finding Harmony Inquiring Intent Less Man Most Out Philosophers Scientific Sometimes Strike System Than Will

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Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

Topics: Bad Fact Foundation Good Logic Possible Practical Reasoning Side Well

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Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

Topics: Anything Anything Else Avoid Belief Calm Change Dissatisfied Doubt Else Free Latter Ourselves Pass Satisfactory State Struggle Uneasy Which While Wish

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Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

Topics: Concept Every First Judgment Mind New

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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

Topics: Any Chaos Existence Indeed Indispensable Individual Ingredient Mere Nothing Pure Reality Regularity Whatever Without

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The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

Topics: Action Belief Due Effect Exercise Final Forms Future Influence Longer Mental Nature Only Our Part Stadium Thinking Thought Which Will

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All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

Topics: Definite Evolution Know Proceeds Vague

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A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

Topics: Been Being Capable Character Continue Determining Embodied Endless Except Future Habit How Law May Might Must Never Quality Something

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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 10th, 1839

Died: April 19th, 1914

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