Which Happened First?

Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce
Image: Napoleon Sarony · Public domain · source

Charles Sanders Peirce was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". According to philosopher Paul Weiss, writing in 1934, Peirce was "the most original and versatile of America's philosophers and America's greatest logician".

Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Dates from Wikidata (CC0)

Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. Charles Sanders Peirce (this page)September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914
  2. Henry GeorgeSeptember 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897
  3. Imre SteindlOctober 29, 1839 – August 31, 1902
  4. Sully PrudhommeMarch 16, 1839 – September 7, 1907
  5. Théodule-Armand RibotDecember 18, 1839 – December 9, 1916
  6. William Graham SumnerOctober 30, 1840 – April 12, 1910

Related

Play a round with Culture · 19th century