Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Peirce” in chapter 1, page 243 of Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3:
... But Peirce re-enforces them with such a wealth of illustration from modern mathematics and physics as to make them extraordinarily suggestive to all whose minds are not closed against new ideas.
Peirce was one of the very few modern scientific thinkers to lay hands on that sacred cow of philosophy, the belief that
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