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December 17, 2010	Good article nominee	Not listed

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Biography	15	19,698	0	1,798
Early life	1,501	1,501	151	151
Education	1,288	1,288	99	99
United States Coast Survey	780	7,925	71	634
American Civil War	1,366	1,366	137	137
Travels to Europe	1,600	1,600	110	110
Harvard observatory	1,080	1,080	101	101
National Academy of Sciences	1,771	1,771	121	121
1880 to 1891	1,328	1,328	94	94
Johns Hopkins University	3,023	3,023	268	268
Personal life	1,595	1,595	128	128
Later life and poverty	4,351	4,351	518	518
Death and legacy	9,923	9,923	806	806
Works	9,047	9,047	835	835
Mathematics	8,066	17,481	485	1,220
Mathematics of logic	691	691	7	7
Probability and statistics	3,130	3,130	205	205
Philosophy of mathematics	5,594	5,594	523	523
As a philosopher	4,361	5,384	387	458
Influence and legacy	1,023	1,023	71	71
Pragmatism	8,742	26,228	775	1,665
Theory of inquiry	1,272	17,486	201	890
Critical common-sensism	826	826	73	73
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Scientific method	9,704	9,704	325	325
Against Cartesianism	2,224	2,224	40	40
Theory of categories	1,849	1,849	174	174
Logic, or semiotic	558	18,770	31	1,482
Relational logic	1,707	1,707	141	141
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Philosophy of logic	607	14,746	48	1,164
Logic as philosophical	3,815	3,815	247	247
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Four incapacities	3,140	3,140	88	88
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Metaphysics	221	11,560	18	732
Ontology	2,428	4,658	117	270
Continua	2,230	2,230	153	153
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Some noted articles	338	338	0	0
Philosophy of science	1,545	1,545	88	88
See also	657	802	0	0
Contemporaries associated with Peirce	145	145	0	0
Notes	23	23	0	0
References	30	30	0	0
External links	10,419	10,419	0	0
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Category:Analytic philosophers

Hee's been placed under Category:Analytic philosophers . Any citation backing this? FatalSubjectivities (talk) 19:10, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Article structure

I've flattened out the article some so that a "Philosophy" top-level header doesn't comprise most of the article's content, but I'm unsure what to do with the connective material between his contributions to specific fields. Remsense诉 07:42, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's a shame to see what has been done to this article

I was the main editor of the Charles Sanders Peirce article starting around 2008 for 5 or 10 years. Disappointed now to find the disarrangement and reduction of the accounts of his ideas, among other things. The Tetrast (talk) 19:06, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good place to put a section on his Philosophy of Mathematics in this article?

I'm currently reading about Pierce's Philosophy of Mathematics, and I am pretty interested in adding a section about it here. However, I am conflicted on exactly where to place this section in the article without it being visibly out-of-place. Therefore, where's a good place to mention it in this very article? PicoMath (talk) 01:53, 1 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

For now, however, I am just going to put this under "as a philosopher", as the logic section doesn't seem to fit. PicoMath (talk) 02:05, 1 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]