Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Charles Sanders Peirce More Quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce More Quotes From Charles Sanders Peirce Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all. Charles Sanders Peirce understanding-naturechancemen It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either takes place between two subjects, whether they react equally upon each other, or one is agent and the other patient, entirely or partially, or at any rate is a resultant of such actions between pairs. But by "semiosis" I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign, its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into actions between pairs. Charles Sanders Peirce importanttwomean All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they can be applied.... This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real. Charles Sanders Peirce realtruthmean
