By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody,that is, creates… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is relative… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond all others… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
