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Full Idea
Infallibility in scientific matters seems to me irresistibly comical.
Gist of Idea
Infallibility in science is just a joke
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (Concerning the Author [1897], p.3)
Book Ref
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.3
Related Idea
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14764 | I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce] |
14766 | Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce] |
14765 | Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce] |
14767 | The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce] |
14768 | Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce] |