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peirce
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Noun peirce has 2 senses
- peirce(n = noun.person) benjamin peirce - United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880); Array is a kind of astronomer, stargazer, uranologist, mathematician
- peirce(n = noun.person) charles peirce, charles sanders peirce - United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914); Array is a kind of logician, logistician, philosopher
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