Single Idea 19097

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

Full Idea

Peirce was not in the slightest bit tempted by the thought that a belief is true if it is useful.

Gist of Idea

Peirce did not think a belief was true if it was useful

Source

report of Charles Sanders Peirce (works [1892]) by Cheryl Misak - Pragmatism and Deflationism 2

Book Reference

'New Pragmatists', ed/tr. Misak,Cheryl [OUP 2009], p.73


A Reaction

All students of the pragmatic theory of truth should start with this idea, because it rejects the caricature view of pragmatic truth, a view which is easily rebutted. James seems to have been guilty of this sin.

Related Idea

Idea 2914 One must never ask whether truth is useful [Nietzsche]