“Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already.”

— Charles Sanders Peirce

"Illustrations of the Logic of Science" First Paper — The Fixation of Belief", in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 12 (November 1877)
Context: Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one's own ratiocination and does not extend to that of other men.
We come to the full possession of our power of drawing inferences the last of all our faculties, for it is not so much a natural gift as a long and difficult art.

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American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist 1839–1914

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