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Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
Charles Sanders Peirce

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Date of Birth:
September 10, 1839
Date of Death:
April 19, 1914
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