Peircelets: Charles Sanders Peirce on how scientists come to agree:
“Different minds may set out with the most antagonistic views, but the progress of investigation carries them by a force outside themselves to one and the same conclusion.”
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More than any philosopher, Peirce understood the reality of many minds working in the same direction guided by forces outside themselves. It is almost the case that with Peirce the notion of originality as an individual claim went out the window.
