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Quotation from Illustrations of the Logic of Science by Charles Sanders Peirce
“Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already.”
Illustrations of the Logic of Science, The Fixation of Belief, I (Chance, Love, and Logic (1923), Project Gutenberg text)
The opening sentence of the series.
Citation: "Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already." — Charles Sanders Peirce, Illustrations of the Logic of Science, The Fixation of Belief, I (Chance, Love, and Logic (1923), Project Gutenberg text). (id peirce-illustrations-of-the-logic-of-science-q1)
Portrait: Charles Sanders Peirce, Napoleon Sarony, Public domain.
