There is a quote, though I cannot find it now, to the effect that ‘It is an old parlor game among American philosophers to show that Peirce thought of something first.’
It’s funny because it’s partly true—he did an impressive amount, and stuff which has yet to be dug out of his scores of volumes—but some Peirce fans take it too far (I had one professor who the quote applied well to).
There is a quote, though I cannot find it now, to the effect that ‘It is an old parlor game among American philosophers to show that Peirce thought of something first.’
But he did!
It’s funny because it’s partly true—he did an impressive amount, and stuff which has yet to be dug out of his scores of volumes—but some Peirce fans take it too far (I had one professor who the quote applied well to).