Truth

Keyword: Truth


Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/04/2013
Quote from "Reason's Conscience: A Practical Treatise on the Theory of Discovery; Wherein logic is conceived as Semeiotic"

… to believe the absolute truth would be to have such a belief that under no circumstances, such as actually occur, should we find ourselves surprised.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/04/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture VII"

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question. That truth consists in a conformity to something ...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/04/2013
Quote from "Truth and Falsity and Error"

All the above relates to complex truth, or the truth of propositions. This is divided into many varieties, among which may be mentioned ethical truth, or the conformity of an...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/04/2013
Quote from "Truth and Falsity and Error"

But even if it were impossible to distinguish between truth and reality, that would not in the least prevent our defining what it is that truth consists in. Truth and falsity are characters...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/04/2013
Quote from "Truth and Falsity and Error"

These characters equally apply to pure mathematics. [—] A proposition is not a statement of perfectly pure mathematics until it is devoid of all definite meaning, and comes to this – that a...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
Quote from "Truth and Falsity and Error"

Truth is a character which attaches to an abstract proposition, such as a person might utter. It essentially depends upon that proposition’s not professing to be exactly true. But we hope that in...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
Quote from "Letters to Georg Cantor"

By a true proposition (if there be any such thing) I mean a proposition which at some time, past or future, emerges into thought, and has the following three characters:

1st, no...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/02/2013
Quote from "How to Make Our Ideas Clear"

The question therefore is, how is true belief (or belief in the real) distinguished from false belief (or belief in fiction). Now, as we have seen in the former paper, the ideas of truth and...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/02/2013
Quote from "Fraser's The Works of George Berkeley"

All human thought and opinion contains an arbitrary, accidental element, dependent on the limitations in circumstances, power, and bent of the individual; an element of error, in short. But...

Manuscript | Posted 25/11/2012
Peirce, Charles S. (1908). The Bed-Rock Beneath Pragmaticism. MS [R] 300

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-1905-1e, pp. 1-65; 33-40; 38-41; 37-38; 40-43.7; plus 64 pp. of fragments running brokenly from p. 1 to p. 60.
This was to have...

News | Posted 08/08/2012
The Normative Thought of Charles S. Peirce

This volume explores the three normative sciences that Peirce distinguished (aesthetics, ethics, and logic) and their relation to phenomenology and metaphysics. The essays approach this topic from...

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