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Peircian

Peircian is the alternative form of Peircean.

Meaning of Peircean

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 Peircian

comparativemore Peircian
superlativemost Peircian

Origin of Peircian

From Peirce + -ian.

Questions about Peircian

What is Peircian the alternative form of?
Peircian is the alternative form of Peircean.

Words near Peircian in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Peircian (page history and authors); Peircean (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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