02677nam 2200661Ia 450 991082558780332120230617001625.00-19-160317-11-281-98910-X0-19-151963-49786611989101(CKB)1000000000209863(EBL)746710(OCoLC)370946282(SSID)ssj0000089979(PQKBManifestationID)11121362(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000089979(PQKBWorkID)10092339(PQKB)10720861(StDuBDS)EDZ0000075371(MiAaPQ)EBC746710(Au-PeEL)EBL746710(CaPaEBR)ebr10283817(CaONFJC)MIL198910(MiAaPQ)EBC5746120(EXLCZ)99100000000020986320031021d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTruth and the end of inquiry a Peircean account of truth /C.J. MisakExpanded paperback ed.Oxford Clarendon ;New York Oxford University Press20041 online resource (233 p.)Oxford philosophical monographsDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-824231-X 0-19-927059-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-206) and index.CONTENTS; Introduction; 1. Pragmatism; 2. Inquiry: The Fixation of Belief; 3. Logic; 4. Objectivity, Bivalence, and Truth; 5. Ethics; Bibliography; IndexC. S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, argued that truth is what we would agree upon, were inquiry to be pursued as far as it could fruitfully go. In this book C. J. Misak argues for and elucidates the pragmatic account of truth, paying attention both to Peirce's texts and to the requirements for a suitable account of truth. An important argument of the book is that we must be sensitive to the difference between offering a definition of truth and engaging in a distinctivelypragmatic project. This book spells out the relationship between truth and inquiry; it articulates the consequences of aOxford philosophical monographs.TruthInquiry (Theory of knowledge)Truth.Inquiry (Theory of knowledge)121121.092Misak C. J(Cheryl J.)532719MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825587803321Truth and the end of inquiry4051507UNINA