Josiah Royce vs. Charles Sanders Peirce
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Josiah Royce
1855 – 1916
Josiah Royce was an American pragmatist and objective idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism. His philosophical ideas included his joining of pragmatism and idealism, his philosophy of loyalty, and his defense of absolutism.
"Error is not a mere accident of an untrained intellect, but a necessary stage or feature or moment of the expression of the truth."
Charles Sanders Peirce
1839 – 1914
Charles Sanders Peirce was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". According to philosopher Paul Weiss, writing in 1934, Peirce was "the most original and versatile of America's philosophers and America's greatest logician". Bertrand Russell wrote in 1959, "he was one of the most original minds of the later nineteenth century and certainly the greatest American thinker ever".
"If the sensation that precedes the present by half a second were still immediately before me, then on the same principle, the sensation preceding that would be …"