The populace subsequently chose the name Weimar ; an early record states that Thomas W. Peirce, who authorized Jackson to sell lots at the site, had visited Weimar, Germany, and was favorably impressed.

All She Wanted, the 1993 book about the case written by Aphrodite Jones, inspired Peirce, but she chose to focus the story on the relationship between Teena and his girlfriend Lana Tisdel.

Peirce had originally sought a career in photography, but chose to pursue a career in film making instead, which gave her the ability to apply techniques she had learned into the film.

) A. N. Whitehead, while reading some of Peirce's unpublished manuscripts soon after arriving at Harvard in 1924, was struck by how Peirce had anticipated his own " process " thinking.

Starting from the idea that people seek not truth per se but instead to subdue irritating, inhibitory doubt, Peirce shows how, through the struggle, some can come to submit to truth, seek as truth the guidance of potential practice correctly to its given goal, and wed themselves to the scientific method.

In 2005, Wendy Peirce, widow of accused Victor Peirce, gave an interview to media detailing how her late husband had planned and carried out the murders and was actually guilty as charged.

Around 1906, Peirce reaffirmed some of the above forms of immortality, but added, " If I am in another life it is sure to be most interesting ; but I cannot imagine how it is going to be me.

Sir Ludovic Kennedy, a campaigner against miscarriages of justice, dedicated a book to Peirce, calling her " the doyenne of British defence lawyers " and that she " refuses to be defeated in any case no matter how unfavourable it looks ".

After reading about the murder of Brandon Teena while in college, Peirce intently researched the case — as well as Teena's life — and worked on a screenplay for the film for almost five years.

When confronted about the lies, Swank told Peirce " but that's what Brandon would do " and she was eventually cast in the film.

Peirce scouted the LGBT community, looking mainly for masculine lesbian women for the role of Brandon Teena.

When Peirce later confronted her about the lies, Swank responded, " But that's what Brandon would do.

Sevigny had auditioned for the role of Brandon, but Peirce decided that Sevigny would be suited playing Tisdel.

Peirce set up a sequence to make the viewer feel like they are walking with Brandon through his fantasy.

For the violent, emotionally charged scenes ( such as the scene in which Brandon is stripped ), Peirce used a hand-held camera to provide maximum flexibility in composing shots without being too shaky, which might detract from the character's face, surroundings, and expression.

Peirce opened the film with a shot of Brandon traveling down the highway, as seen from the character's imaginative or dream perspective, similar to the beginning of Raging Bull.

Peirce also used the same shots in the opening roller rink scene ( where Brandon pursues his first relationship with a young girl ) that were used in The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) when Dorothy first left her house and entered the land of Oz.

While at Columbia working on an idea for her thesis film about a female soldier in drag during the American Civil War, Peirce read a Village Voice article about the life and death of Brandon Teena, a transgender man from Nebraska who was brutally raped and murdered when his gender history was discovered.

Peirce displayed anger over the fact the MPAA wanted the sex scene between Brandon and Lana removed but were satisfied with the overall brutality and violence in the murder scene.

She is famous for uncovering the Brandon Teena story, and her Village Voice article on the subject was said by director Kimberly Peirce to have been the original inspiration for the film " Boys Don't Cry.

Peirce died destitute in Milford, Pennsylvania, twenty years before his widow.

Writing in 1910, Peirce admits that " in almost everything I printed before the beginning of this century I more or less mixed up hypothesis and induction " and he traces the confusion of these two types of reasoning to logicians ' too " narrow and formalistic a conception of inference, as necessarily having formulated judgments from its premises.

* Benjamin Mills Peirce ( 1844 – 1870 ), who worked as a mining engineer before an early death,

To Peirce and to experimental psychology belongs the honor of having invented randomized experiments, decades before the innovations of Neyman and Fisher in agriculture.

In particular, Daniel Coit Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins University, is alleged to have been on the point of awarding tenure to C. S. Peirce, before Newcomb intervened behind the scenes to dissuade him.

Equational logic was common before Principia Mathematica ( e. g., Peirce ,< sup > 1, 2, 3 </ sup > Johnson 1892 ), and has present-day advocates ( Gries and Schneider 1993 ).

Peirce, like Kant before him, recognizes Aristotle's distinction between a nominal definition, a definition in name only, and a real definition, one that states the function of the concept, the reason for conceiving it, and so indicates the essence, the underlying substance of its object.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Simon Guggenheim attended Central High School and Peirce College before settling in Pueblo, Colorado, where he worked as the chief ore buyer for his father's mining and smelting operation, M. Guggenheim ’ s Sons.

He was the French advocate of the symbolic logic that emerged in the years before World War I, thanks to the writings of Charles Sanders Peirce, Giuseppe Peano and his school, and especially to the Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Couturat's friend and correspondent, Bertrand Russell.

Swift was previously designated Peirce B before being named by the IAU.

Shortly after the film's release, Peirce spoke before the National Press Club and members of Congress on behalf of Soldiers and the Stop-Loss Compensation Act, which financially compensated soldiers for multiple tours of duty served because of the stop-loss policy.

Peirce co-wrote the script and had cast Hugh Jackman, Annette Bening, Ben Kingsley, and Evan Rachel Wood before the project stalled.

William Peirce " in the tyme of Sir Thos Dale's government " -- that is, before 1616.

So began her 40 years of research on Peirce the mathematician and scientist, culminating in Eisele ( 1976, 1979, 1985 ).

The cataloguing project began in 1872 when Benjamin Peirce first published his Linear Associative Algebra, and was carried forward by his son Charles Sanders Peirce.

Indeed, the highly original and influential American logician, Charles Sanders Peirce ( 1839 – 1914 ), wrote that his lifelong fascination with logic began when he read Whately's Elements of Logic as a 12 year old boy.

" Peirce began working on a concept for the film and gave it the working title Take It Like a Man.

The trial of the four men accused, Victor Peirce, Trevor Pettingill, Anthony Leigh Farrell and Peter David McEvoy, began in March 1991.

After film producer Christine Vachon saw a version of the short, Vachon and Peirce began working on a feature film.

In 2005, inspired by the real-life stories of American soldiers, including her own brother, fighting in Iraq and coming home, Peirce began work on Stop-Loss.

This work demonstrates that Bayesian-probability propositions can be falsified, and so meet an empirical criterion of Charles S. Peirce, whose work inspired Ramsey.

That employment exempted Peirce from having to take part in the Civil War ; it would have been very awkward for him to do so, as the Boston Brahmin Peirces sympathized with the Confederacy.

Before 1900, Peirce treated abduction as the use of a known rule to explain an observation, e. g., it is a known rule that if it rains the grass is wet ; so, to explain the fact that the grass is wet ; one infers that it has rained.

William James 1842 – 1910 Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller | F. C. S. Schiller 1863 – 1937 It is sometimes stated that James ' and other philosophers ' use of the word pragmatism so dismayed Peirce that he renamed his own variant pragmaticism.

Peirce wrote " It seems to me a pity they should allow a philosophy so instinct with life to become infected with seeds of death ...."

After a few more Union attacks were thwarted, Peirce decided further attacks would have been futile so he ordered the Union forces to retire from the field and returned to their bases.

According to Peirce, synechism flatly denies Parmenides ' claim that " Being is, and non-being is nothing " and declares instead that " being is a matter of more or less, so as to merge insensibly into nothing.