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How Did Charles Sanders Peirce Contribute To Pragmatism?
William James interacted with the artistically elite of the time and interacted with wide arrays of scholars and writers being a luminary for Theodor Roosevelt and W.E.B Du Bois. James was a fluctuating professor at Harvard teaching variable subjects such as physiology, anatomy, medicine, biology and physiology. In 1907, James retired of Harvard but that did not slow down his creative mind from persisting, publishing works such as Pragmatism, A Pluralistic life, and the meaning of Truth. Although he was an exceptional writer and lecturer even a founder of the American Society for Physical Research however nothing was more embedded in his career but the philosophy of Pragmatism. Charles Sanders Peirce was the inspiration for James pragmatism,
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