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Full Idea
A truth which rests on the authority of inspiration only is of a somewhat incomprehensible nature; and we can never be sure that we rightly comprehend it.
Gist of Idea
A truth is hard for us to understand if it rests on nothing but inspiration
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (Scientific Attitude and Fallibilism [1899], II)
Book Ref
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.57
14772 | If we decide an idea is inspired, we still can't be sure we have got the idea right [Peirce] |
14773 | A truth is hard for us to understand if it rests on nothing but inspiration [Peirce] |
14771 | Only reason can establish whether some deliverance of revelation really is inspired [Peirce] |