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Single Idea 19246

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

Full Idea

Whether or not 'truth' has two meanings, I think 'holding for true' has two kinds. One is practical holding for true which alone is entitled to the name of Belief; the other is the acceptance of a proposition, which in pure science is always provisional.

Gist of Idea

'Holding for true' is either practical commitment, or provisional theory

Source

Charles Sanders Peirce (Reasoning and the Logic of Things [1898], IV)

Book Reference

Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things', ed/tr. Ketner,K.L. [Harvard 1992], p.178


A Reaction

The problem here seems to be that we can act on a proposition without wholly believing it, like walking across thin ice.