Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.


Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce (ed. Harvard University Press, 1974) - ISBN: 9780674138025

Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,...

Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,...

Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,...

Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,...