Charles Sanders Peirce

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Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

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Peirce, Charles Sanders. "Three Cotary Propositions of Pragmatism." 14 May 1903, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Peirce, Charles Sanders. "Lecture Seven: Three Cotary Propositions of Pragmatism." Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking: The 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism. State University of New York Press, 1997.

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When I communicate my thought and my sentiments to a friend with whom I am in full sympathy, so that my feelings pass into him and I am conscious of what he feels, do I not live in his brain as well as in my own-most literally!

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Peirce, Charles Sanders. Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Science and Philosophy. Vol. 7, The Belknap Press, 1966, par. 591.

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Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.

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Peirce, Charles Sanders. Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Science and Philosophy. Vol. 7, The Belknap Press, 1966, par. 547.

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