찰스 샌더스 퍼스

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찰스 샌더스 퍼스(영어: Charles Sanders Peirce, 미국식 영어 발음: /t͡ʃaɹlz ˈsændɚz ˈpɝs/, 1839년 9월 10일~1914년 4월 19일)는 미국의 철학자이다. 현대 분석철학 및 기호논리학의 뛰어난 선구자 중 한 사람이다.

Charles Sanders Peirce was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". According to philosopher Paul Weiss, writing in 1934, Peirce was "the most original and versatile of America's philosophers and America's greatest logician". Bertrand Russell wrote in 1959, "he was one of the most original minds of the later nineteenth century and certainly the greatest American thinker ever".