Peirceanadj.
/ˈpɪəsɪən/, U.S. /ˈpɪrsiən/ Chiefly Philosophy.
Of or relating to Charles Sanders Peirce (see Peirce n.), or his theories, methods, or discoveries.
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Peircean1905
Russellian1915
Wittgensteinian1946
Wittgensteinian1946
Rylean1951
Quinean1957
1905 Mind 14 237 The Peircian pragmatist.
1931 J. H. Muirhead Platonic Trad. Anglo-Saxon Philos. iii. iii. 343 It was the general view founded on the recognition of this purposiveness that..he called pragmaticism, and that..has become, I suppose (though not under that Peircean name), a commonplace of philosophy.
1978 N. Jardine in C. Hookway & P. Pettit Action & Interpretation 123 A Peircean vision of an ultimate science, an omega of human knowledge in which the essences of all things are revealed.
1994 Eng. Today July 50/1 Mass communication must rely less on the arbitrary and conventional signs of Saussurean linguistics and more on motivated icons in the Peircean sense.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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