Example sentences for: peirce

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

  • The publication of the works of Charles S. Peirce, one of the most important scholarly editions in American letters, has been featured in the London Times Literary Supplement, the most widely read international book review in English.

  • 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."

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

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

  • 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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