Example sentences for: peirce

How can you use “peirce” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Peirce asks.

  • James urged us to think of true beliefs as those that point to successful actions, most of which result (in the sense of pragmatism's coiner, Charles Sander Peirce) from a convergence of belief among our "community of inquirers."

  • Boys Don't Cry 's Peirce struggled over whether or not to place Lana at the murder scene.

  • Dewey himself liked Peirce's definition of truth as the "opinion" on which all investigators are "fated to be agreed."

  • I take Peirce to be right when he tells us that meaning (and therefore correct usage in the broadest sense) is always inseparable from context.


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