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Peircean

Peircean adjective: of or pertaining to Charles S. Peirce, 19th-20th century American logician, mathematician, scientist, and philosopher, founder of pragmatism.

Adjective

Peircean (comparative more Peircean, superlative most Peircean)

  1. Of or pertaining to Charles S. Peirce, 19th-20th century American logician, mathematician, scientist, and philosopher, founder of pragmatism.
    • Furthermore, the treatment of determinism in two of Prior's proposed temporal systems, namely the Ockhamistic and Peircean systems, is investigated.2000, Torben Braüner, Per Hasle, and Peter Øhstrøm, "Determinism and the Origins of Temporal Logic", pages 185-206 in Howard Barringer, Michael Fisher, Dov Gabbay, and Graham Gough, editors, Advances...

Forms of Peircean

comparativemore Peircean
superlativemost Peircean
alternative formPeirceian
alternative formPeircian

Origin of Peircean

From Peirce + -an.

Words formed from Peircean

Questions about Peircean

What does Peircean mean?
Peircean means of or pertaining to Charles S. Peirce, 19th-20th century American logician, mathematician, scientist, and philosopher, founder of pragmatism.
What part of speech is Peircean?
Peircean is an adjective.

Words near Peircean in the dictionary

  1. peirastically
  2. Peirce
  3. Peirce arrow
  4. Peirce arrows
  5. Peirce's law
  6. Peircean
  7. Peirceanism
  8. Peirceian
  9. Peircian
  10. peirosaurid
  11. peirosaurids

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