In 1879, Peirce was appointed Lecturer in logic at the new Johns Hopkins University, which was strong in a number of areas that interested him, such as philosophy ( Royce and Dewey did their PhDs at Hopkins ), psychology ( taught by G. Stanley Hall and studied by Joseph Jastrow, who coauthored a landmark empirical study with Peirce ), and mathematics ( taught by J. J. Sylvester, who came to admire Peirce's work on mathematics and logic ).

The application was doomed ; his nemesis Newcomb served on the Institution's executive committee, and its President had been the President of Johns Hopkins at the time of Peirce's dismissal.

" ( Russell's Principia Mathematica, published from 1910 to 1913, does not mention Peirce ; Peirce's work was not widely known till later.

) A. N. Whitehead, while reading some of Peirce's unpublished manuscripts soon after arriving at Harvard in 1924, was struck by how Peirce had anticipated his own " process " thinking.

The first scholar to give Peirce his considered professional attention was Royce's student Morris Raphael Cohen, the editor of an anthology of Peirce's writings titled Chance, Love, and Logic ( 1923 ) and the author of the first bibliography of Peirce's scattered writings.

( Which was not to Peirce's taste-he came to complain that James had " kidnapped " the term and eventually to call himself a " pragmaticist " instead ).

Peirce's pragmatism was the first time the scientific method was proposed as an epistemology for philosophical questions.

Peirce's definition of mathematics was credited by Charles Sanders Peirce as helping to initiate the consequentialist philosophy of pragmatism.

Rather than focusing on Brandon's early life and background, the screenplay was subsequently modified closer to Peirce's vision, which focused the majority of the film on the relationship between Brandon and girlfriend Lana Tisdel and the events that led to Brandon's murder.

Perhaps the first instance of an axiom or rule with the power of C2 was the " Rule of ( De ) Iteration ," combining T13 and AA = A, of C. S. Peirce's existential graphs.

On 11 October 1988, Peirce's best friend, Graeme Jensen, was killed by police in Narre Warren.

Peirce's house was later demolished and the backyard dug up in the search for evidence.

Charles Brewer ( 1804 – 1885 ), the master of Peirce's ships, became a partner in December 1835 and the business was known as Peirce & Brewer.

Peirce's writings do not address this question, because first-order logic was first clearly articulated only some years after his death, in the 1928 first edition of David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann's Principles of Mathematical Logic.

Gareth Peirce's maiden name was Webb.

He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.

`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

Curt was too involved in his own problems to pay much attention.

The truth was, the puncher was both bewildered and dismayed by his own mixed luck.

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.

It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.

what they feared most was war or political instability in their own country.

This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.

That world was in scale with my own smallness.

And the common man was developing mythic power, or charisma, on his own.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.

Indeed, it was said of Abbahu that he was a living illustration of the maxim ( Ecc.

Strategic points, he says, not the defeat of the enemy's army, decide the fate of one's own country, and must constantly remain the general's main concern, a maxim which was never more remarkably disproved than in the war of 1809.

Unlike his father, the new tsar Alexander III ( 1881 – 1894 ) was throughout his reign a staunch reactionary who revived the maxim of " Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and National Character ".

The maxim of Rau was “ to reconcile, not divide ”.

However, some legal scholars criticize this, because generally, in the legal systems of Continental Europe where the maxim was first developed, " penal law " was taken to mean statutory penal law, so as to create a guarantee to the individual, considered as a fundamental right, that he would not be prosecuted for an action or omission that was not considered a crime according to the statutes passed by the legislators in force at the time of the action or omission, and that only those penalties that were in place when the infringement took place would be applied.

The maxim then was that every witness ’ s evidence on oath was true.

Von Feuerbach was the originator of the famous maxim nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali: " There's no crime and hence there shall not be punishment if at the time no penal law existed "

The authentic idea of unity of the Slavic people was all but gone after World War I when the maxim " Versailles and Trianon have put an end to all Slavisms " and was finally put to rest with the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe in late 1980s.

This maxim was featured in the masthead of the newspaper of a Shining Path front group.

More, relying on legal precedent and the maxim " qui tacet consentire videtur " ( literally, who ( is ) silent is seen to consent ), understood that he could not be convicted as long as he did not explicitly deny that the King was Supreme Head of the Church, and he therefore refused to answer all questions regarding his opinions on the subject.

1991 ) that the Ninth Amendment was intended to vitiate the maxim of expressio unius est exclusio alterius according to which the express mention of one thing excludes all others:

Hempel rejected this as a solution to the paradox, insisting that the proposition ' c is a raven and is black ' must be considered " by itself and without reference to any other information ", and pointing out that it "... was emphasized in section 5. 2 ( b ) of my article in Mind ... that the very appearance of paradoxicality in cases like that of the white shoe results in part from a failure to observe this maxim.

" With a maxim such as this, it was easy for him to maintain that Elizabeth's — and his — brutal measures were political and not religious.

The influence of Flores Magón on Zapata can be seen in the Zapatistas ' Plan de Ayala, but even more noticeably in their slogan ( this slogan was never used by Zapata ) " Tierra y libertad " or " land and liberty ", the title and maxim of Flores Magón's most famous work.

It was believed, for example, that maggots could spontaneously appear in decaying meat ; Francesco Redi carried out experiments which disproved this notion and coined the maxim Omne vivum ex ovo (" every living thing comes from a living thing " — literally " from an egg "), Virchow ( and his predecessors ) extended this to state that the only source for a living cell was another living cell.

Gournay was delighted by the Colbert-LeGendre anecdote, and forged it into a larger maxim all his own: " Laissez faire et laissez passer " (' Let do and let pass ').

Jeremy Bentham used the term, but it was probably James Mill's reference to the " laissez-faire " maxim ( together with " pas trop gouverner ") in an 1824 entry for the Encyclopædia Britannica that really brought the term into wider English usage.

By putting all these ideas together on his return from the Paris family holiday, the Christmas Cracker was born complete with a surprise novelty gift, a trinket, a tissue paper hat, a snap to make a bang when pulled apart and a piece of paper with a joke or motto-a maxim of appropriate character to express a principle or ideal suited to the occasion.