John Dewey

Author of "How to Make Ideas Clear" or "The Fixation of Belief", Charles Sanders Peirce was known as a great American Scientist and Philosopher, pioneer in the movement of Pragmatism. William James called Peirce the most original thinker of their generation. Peirce placed himself somewhere near the rank of Leibniz. This much is now certain; he is the most original and versatile of America's philosophers and America's greatest logician. "Peirce stands out as one of the great founders of modern scientific logic; and in the realm of general philosophy the development of some of his pregnant ideas has led to the pragmatism and radical empiricism of James, as well as to the mathematical idealism of Royce, and to the anti-nominalism which characterizes the philosophic movement known as Neo-Realism."...