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All the ideas for 'Works of Love', 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong' and 'Pragmatism in Retrospect'

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5 ideas

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

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Peirce's theory offers anti-realist verificationism, but surely how things are is independent of us? [Horsten on Peirce]

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Independent truth (if there is any) is the ultimate result of sufficient enquiry [Peirce]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 3. Pragmatism

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Pragmatism is a way of establishing meanings, not a theory of metaphysics or a set of truths [Peirce]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4761	The 'error theory' of morals says there is no moral knowledge, because there are no moral facts [Mackie, by Engel]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

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Perfect love is not in spite of imperfections; the imperfections must be loved as well [Kierkegaard]