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Noun: Peirce
  1. United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914)
    - Charles Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce
     
  2. United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880)
    - Benjamin Peirce

Type of: astronomer, logician, mathematician, philosopher, stargazer [informal], uranologist

Encyclopedia: Peirce, Joseph