Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes about Truth

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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

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.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Truth, Essentials, May

A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Truth, Disappointment, Long

Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, p.397, Harvard University Press

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Truth, Science, Gambling

Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers”, p.62, Harvard University Press

All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they can be applied.... This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Truth, Real, Mean

Charles Sanders Peirce, Morris Raphael Cohen, John Dewey (1968). “Chance, love, and logic philosophical essays”, p.306, Charles Sander Peirce