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Single Idea 19095

[catalogued under 3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth]

Full Idea

In Peirce's naturalist view of truth, it is a catch-all for the particular local aims of enquiry - empirical adequacy, predictive power, coherence, simplicity, elegance, explanatory power, a reliable guide to action, fruitfulness, great understanding.

Gist of Idea

Pragmatic 'truth' is a term to cover the many varied aims of enquiry

Source

report of Charles Sanders Peirce (works [1892]) by Cheryl Misak - Pragmatism and Deflationism 1

Book Reference

'New Pragmatists', ed/tr. Misak,Cheryl [OUP 2009], p.70


A Reaction

The aims I cited in my thesis on explanation. One given, for me, is that truth is an ideal, which may or may not be attainable, to varying degrees. It is just what thinking aims at. I suspect, though, that these listed items have one thing in common.