[Inquiry] Re: Grounds And Respects

[Jon Awbrey]

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GAR.  Note 4

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| Section 1.  Of Truth
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| 'True' is an adjective applicable solely to representations
| and things considered as representations.  It implies the
| agreement of the representation with its object.
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| A.  The simplest kind of agreement of truth is a resemblance between
|     the representation and its object.  I call this 'verisimilitude',
|     and the representation a 'copy'.
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|     Resemblance consists in a likeness, which is a sameness of
|     predicates.  Carried to the highest point, it would destroy
|     itself by becoming identity.  All real resemblance, therefore,
|     has a limit.  Beyond the limits of resemblance, verisimilitude
|     ceases.  .:  Verisimilitude is partial truth.
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|     Whatever claims to be a representation (a portrait, for example) is a
|     representation.  Truth is that which, claiming to be a representation,
|     is a representation.  .:  Truth has no absolute antithesis.
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|            Falsehood also claims to be a representation
|            It is an imperfect 'copy' of truth
|        .:  Verisimilitude is falsehood.
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|     From Chapter 3 of the Introduction, it follows
|     that there is no falsehood in our conceptions.
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|     .:  The truth of conceptions is not 'verisimilitude'.
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| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 79-80
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| C.S. Peirce, ["A Treatise on Metaphysics"], MS 70 (1861-1862), pp. 57-84 in:
|'Writings of Charles S. Peirce:  A Chronological Edition, Vol. 1, 1857-1866',
| Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.

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