Charles Sanders Peirce
Noun
Meaning
United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914)
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Auspitz has said, Auspitz, Josiah Lee (1994), "The Wasp Leaves the Bottle: Charles Sanders Peirce", The American Scholar, v. 63, n. 4, autumn, 602–18.
Charles Sanders Peirce The defects in Boole's system (such as the use of the letter v for existential propositions) were all remedied by his followers.
Charles Sanders Peirce (1880) had discovered the functional completeness of NAND or NOR more than 30 years earlier, using the term ampheck (for 'cutting both ways'), but he never published his finding.
Charles Sanders Peirce (during 1880–81) showed that NOR gates alone (or alternatively NAND gates alone) can be used to reproduce the functions of all the other logic gates, but his work on it was unpublished until 1933.
Charles Sanders Peirce built upon the work of Boole to develop a logical system for relations and quantifiers, which he published in several papers from 1870 to 1885.
Charles Sanders Peirce restated and extended De Morgan's results.