Charles Sanders Peirce (/ˈpɜːrs/,[8] like "purse",
September 10, 1839 – Aprile 19, 1914) wis an American philosoper, logician, mathematician, an scientist that is at times kent as "the faither o pragmatism".
↑Joseph Brent (1998). Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life (2 ed.). Indiana University Press. p. 18. ISBN9780253211613. Retrieved 24 September 2012. Peirce had strong, though unorthodox, religious convictions. Although he was a communicant in the Episcopal church for most of his life, he expressed contempt for the theologies, metaphysics, and practices of established religions.
↑"Peirce", in the case of C.S. Peirce, always rhymes with the English-language word "terse" and so, in most dialects, is pronounced exactly like the English-language word "purse (help·info)". See "Note on the Pronunciation of 'Peirce'Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine", Peirce Project Newsletter, v. 1, nos. 3/4, Dec. 1994.