List, Jeff: I concur with your elegantly phrased comments.
When I posted my request, I was hoping that the enumeration would be specifically indexed to textual references. So, I am a bit disappointed. It would be nice mini-research project for an undergraduate student to collect CSP statements about truth with textual citations and post them online. It would enhance the value of Almeder’s (incomplete) work. Cheers jerry > On Mar 9, 2017, at 4:17 PM, Jeffrey Brian Downard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Jerry C., Jon S, List, > > With respect to the 13 items on the list. None is, taken by itself, a theory > of truth. Rather, they are statements made by a commentator on passages in > the published works and manuscripts, many of which are from different > contexts--and many of which seem to have been written by Peirce with > different purposes in mind. If we start with something more modest than a > theory, such as a definition of truth (verbal, logical or pragmatic), we can > see that Peirce was offering definitions of different senses of the > conception, and that the different senses were not wholly separate. Rather, > they are attempts to capture the meaning of conceptions pertaining to truth > where it functions as an ordinary end, and where it functions as a larger > ideal and where is taken as a relation between signs and objects, etc. Some > of these conceptions will be needed for the purpose of developing speculative > grammar, and others for the purpose of a critical logic and yet others for > the purpose of a methodeutic. Taken together, many if not most of the > statements Peirce has made about truth may turn out to be part of a larger > integrated semiotic theory. Others may turn out to be accounts of rival > conceptions of truth, or of ordinary notions, etc. As such, I suspect that > the 13 items can be sorted and organized, and some will turn out to be simply > false (e.g., 11). > > --Jeff > > Jeffrey Downard > Associate Professor > Department of Philosophy > Northern Arizona University > (o) 928 523-8354 > > > From: Jon Alan Schmidt <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2017 1:06 PM > To: Jerry LR Chandler > Cc: Peirce List > Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Truth as Regulative or Real; Continuity and Boscovich > points. > > Jerry C., List: > > Almeder's 1985 Transactions article, "Peirce's Thirteen Theories of Truth," > does not spell out the list very clearly, but here is what I gather from the > text. > Correspondence - "true propositions are simply the product of the destined > final opinion of the scientific community." > Correspondence - truth is "an ideal limit of scientific progress, a limit > asymptotically approached (but never in fact reached) by successive advances > in scientific progress." > Correspondence - "some propositions are true because they are what the > scientific community would endorse in the final opinion if the scientific > community were to continue inquiry forever." > Coherence - "truth is simply what one gets when one's beliefs are verified or > fully authorized by standards of rationality proper to the scientific > community." > Consensus - "similar to that ... adopted by Habermas and certain continental > hermeneuticists." > Pragmatic - "the truth of a proposition is a function of whether it ... will > be asserted in the final opinion of the community," which is "destined as a > real product." > Pragmatic - "the truth of a proposition is a function of whether it would be > ... asserted in the final opinion of the community," which is "approached as > an ideal limit." > Pragmatic - "the truth of a proposition is a function of whether it ,,, would > continue to be endorsed were some final scientific opinion to emerge." > Amalgam - "as if Peirce adopted some remarkably subtle theory that > consistently blends elements that are present every known theory of truth." > Combination - "the meaning of 'true' is specified in terms of correspondence > while the conditions for applying the predicate are coherentist." > Muddle - "Peirce's views on truth are basically incoherent or reflect > mutually inconsistent characterisations of the nature of truth." > Received View - "whether Peirce defined truth in terms of correspondence or > coherence, he viewed truth as the product of the opinion that the scientific > community would ultimately reach were it to continue indefinitely long and > progressively in its research." > Plausible View - "Peirce defined truth (with a capital T) as correspondence > and reckoned it the destined product the final opinion, and ... also defined > truth in terms of what are fully authorized in asserting under the current > standards of rationality and under the scientific method at any given moment." > Almeder thinks that only #10, #11, and #13 "make any sense at all," and comes > out in favor of #13. > > Regards, > > Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA > Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman > www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt> - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt > <http://twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt> > On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Jerry LR Chandler > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > List: > > In her book, Charles Peirces’s Pragmatic Pluralism, Rosenthal states: > … the literature on Peirce contains “no fewer than thirteen distinct > interpretations of Peirce’s views on the nature of truth”, attributing the > account to Robert Almeder. > > She apparently intends contrast CSP’s concept with the notions of > correspondence and coherence. > > (My source of this information is Google Books.) > > Can anyone provide the putative listing of Almeter with the original text > citations? > > Cheers > > Jerry > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. 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