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Full Idea
Philosophy differs from mathematics in being a search for real truth.
Gist of Idea
Philosophy is a search for real truth
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (Reasoning and the Logic of Things [1898], I)
Book Ref
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things', ed/tr. Ketner,K.L. [Harvard 1992], p.115
A Reaction
This is important, coming from the founder of pragmatism, in rejecting the anti-realism which a lot of modern pragmatists seem to like.