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    James Mills Peirce (May 1, 1834 – March 21, 1906) was an American mathematician and educator. He taught at Harvard University for almost 50 years. Peirce...
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    Sarah Hunt Mills, the daughter of U.S. Senator Elijah Hunt Mills. Peirce and his wife had four sons and one daughter: James Mills Peirce (1834–1906)...
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    brother James Mills Peirce and his neighbors, relatives of Gifford Pinchot, settled his debts and paid his property taxes and mortgage. Peirce did some...
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    one of two in 1903. Then in 1907 James dedicated his Pragmatism to the nominalist John Stuart Mill and omitted Peirce from its list of references for further...
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    graduate student in mathematics. He had learned about quaternions from James Mills Peirce at Harvard, but Dean A. W. Phillips persuaded him to take Gibbs's...
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    cinq point quelconques pris dans l'espace, p. 105 at Google Books James Mill Peirce, A Text-book of Analytic Geometry at Internet Archive. The oldest...
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    Pragmatism (category Charles Sanders Peirce)
    often attributed to philosophers Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. In 1878, Peirce described it in his pragmatic maxim: "Consider the...
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  • Professorship of Astronomy and Mathematics have been: Benjamin Peirce (1842–1880) James Mills Peirce (1885–1906) William Elwood Byerly (1906–1913) William Fogg...
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  • classical scholar) Charles Payne (President of Ohio Wesleyan University) James Mills Peirce (Professor at Harvard University) Albert Perkins (Principal of Phillips...
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  • Henck. Students included George Martin Lane, William C. Lovering, James Mills Peirce, George D. Robinson, and William Robert Ware. Hopkins Academy, Hadley...
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  • Wright Mills was strongly influenced by pragmatism, specifically the works of George Herbert Mead, John Dewey, Charles Sanders Peirce, and William James. Although...
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    recipient of Katz Fellowship (UC Berkeley), Putnam Fellowship (Harvard), James Mills Peirce Fellowship (Harvard), Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship (UCLA), and von...
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    Charles Sanders Peirce and William James when both men were at Harvard in the 1870s. James popularized the term "pragmatism", giving Peirce full credit for...
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    Pragmaticism (category Charles Sanders Peirce)
    "Pragmaticism" is a term used by Charles Sanders Peirce for his pragmatic philosophy starting in 1905, in order to distance himself and it from pragmatism...
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    commanded. There were strains with Peirce's mother Sarah, brother Jem (James Mills Peirce), and most of all his aunt Lizzie, who owned the house in which Sarah...
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    Helen Sophia Mills (1806–1844), who married Hon. Charles Phelps Huntington. Sarah Hunt Mills (1808–1887), who married Prof. Benjamin Peirce, the father...
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    therapeutic riding services. Peirce Mill is a water-powered grist mill in Rock Creek Park. There were at least eight mills along Rock Creek within what...
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    are extra-mental realities. William James learned about pragmatism. Though James certainly agreed with Peirce and against Berkeley that general ideas...
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    (1960s to 1980s). Sex & Math in the Harvard Yard: The Memoirs of James Mills Peirce, novel. Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Pre-Nazi Germany: The Youth...
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    Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance...
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  • Georgia Historic mills of the Atlanta area Old Mill at Berry College, Rome Nora Mill at Helen, Georgia Illinois Franklin Creek Grist Mill, Franklin Creek...
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    foreman at the Abbott Mills in Andover, Massachusetts, he became connected with North Andover Mills. Then Saunders built his own small mill in Andover, and...
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    Sanders Peirce: Interdisciplinary Scientist". The Logic of Interdisciplinarity. By Peirce, Charles S. Bisanz, Elize (ed.). Berlin: Akademie Verlag. Peirce, Charles...
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    Sylvester James Gates Jr. (born December 15, 1950), known as S. James Gates Jr. or Jim Gates, is an American theoretical physicist who works on supersymmetry...
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    important influence on American pragmatists such as Charles Sanders Peirce and William James. Wright was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, the son of a merchant...
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    Millstone (redirect from Mill stone)
    the milling process. Millstones for some water-powered mills (such as Peirce Mill) spin at about 125 rpm. Especially in the case of wind-powered mills the...
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    Victoria, Lady Welby (category Charles Sanders Peirce)
    Correspondence between Charles S. Peirce and Victoria Lady Welby. Edited by Charles S. Hardwick, with the assistance of James Cook. Texas Tech University Press...
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    to Edward Purcell. Wikiquote has quotations related to Edward Mills Purcell. Edward Mills Purcell at the Mathematics Genealogy Project E. M. Purcell on...
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  • indeed this was his primary specialty. Charles S. Peirce was also a pioneer in statistics. Peirce held that science achieves statistical probabilities...
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  • Oakeshott (later) Thomas Paine George Bernard Shaw George Soros Charles Sanders Peirce Plato Karl Popper Joseph Raz Franklin D. Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jean-Jacques...
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