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PEIRCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914)
Synonyms:
Charles Peirce; Charles Sanders Peirce; Peirce
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
logician; logistician (a person skilled at symbolic logic)
philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880)
Synonyms:
Benjamin Peirce; Peirce
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)
mathematician (a person skilled in mathematics)
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