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Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce
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.
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The quote defines truth as the conclusion that everyone who seriously investigates a question would eventually accept. It also says that the thing described by this shared conclusion is real. In this view, truth is not merely one person’s belief; it is what careful inquiry ultimately brings people to agree on.
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- Google Books, Values in a Universe of Chance: Selected Writings of Charles S. Peirce
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