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This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

Charles Sanders Peirce
Believe, Branches, Mathematics
Writings of Charles. Sanders Peirce Volume 3 (p. 279)

Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

Charles Sanders Peirce
Philosophical, Men, Facts
Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.138, Indiana University Press

But the extraordinary insight which some persons are able to gain of others from indications so slight that it is difficult to ascertain what they are, is certainly rendered more comprehensible by the view here taken.

Charles Sanders Peirce
Taken, Views, Able
Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, Harvard University Press

Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.

Charles Sanders Peirce
Stress, Math, Perfect
Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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