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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 6. Verisimilitude

19247	The one unpardonable offence in reasoning is to block the route to further truth [Peirce]
	Full Idea: To set up a philosophy which barricades the road of further advance toward the truth is the one unpardonable offence in reasoning.
	From: Charles Sanders Peirce (Reasoning and the Logic of Things [1898], IV)
	A reaction: This is Popper's rather dubious objection to essentialism in science. Yet Popper tried to do the same thing with his account of induction.