The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

He applied in 1902 to the newly formed Carnegie Institution for a grant to write a systematic book of his life's work. Sylvester who came to admire Peirce's work on mathematics and logic). In 1888 President Grover Cleveland appointed him to the Assay Commission.

In 1934 the philosopher Paul Weiss called Peirce "the most original and versatile of American philosophers and America's greatest logician". Charles Sanders Peirce (pron.