Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Empedocles, Archelaus and Charles Sanders Peirce

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3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth
Pragmatic 'truth' is a term to cover the many varied aims of enquiry [Peirce, by Misak]
Peirce did not think a belief was true if it was useful [Peirce, by Misak]
Truth is the opinion fated to be ultimately agreed by all investigators [Peirce]
Independent truth (if there is any) is the ultimate result of sufficient enquiry [Peirce]
If truth is the end of enquiry, what if it never ends, or ends prematurely? [Atkin on Peirce]
'Holding for true' is either practical commitment, or provisional theory [Peirce]
Peirce's theory offers anti-realist verificationism, but surely how things are is independent of us? [Horsten on Peirce]