Charles Sanders Peirce · Philosophy
Peirce’s pragmatic account of truth and reality: truth is the opinion fated to be ultimately agreed upon by all who investigate, and the real is its object - a reality independent of what any particular mind thinks, yet not independent of thought in general, and reachable only by an endless community of inquiry.
You learned that Peirce defined truth as the opinion fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, and the real as its object - so that reality is independent of any particular mind but not of mind in general, and truth belongs to a community of inquiry over the long run rather than to any individual. Expla…
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