Full Idea
I hold that truth's independence of individual opinions is due (so far as there is any 'truth') to its being the predestined result to which sufficient enquiry would ultimately lead.
Gist of Idea
Independent truth (if there is any) is the ultimate result of sufficient enquiry
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (Pragmatism in Retrospect [1906], p.288)
Book Reference
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.288
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