[Inquiry] Re: Grounds And Respects

[Jon Awbrey]

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GAR.  Note 6

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| Section 1.  Of Truth (concl.)
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| C.  The objection to verisimilitude's being the truth of conceptions
|     is its limitation as to completeness;  the objection to veracity's
|     is its limitation in beginning.  Neither is open to the objection
|     against the other.  But veracity was called that kind of truth
|     which was not verisimilitude.
|
|     Conceive, however, veracity to be perfect --
|     to be founded not upon convention but upon
|     the very nature of things and what have we?
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|     1.  The nature of a thing is that which it derives from its origin.
|         Derivation not in time is the relation of accident to substance.
|         Hence, an invariable connection in the nature of things is unity
|         of substance.
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|     2.  The qualities of things are founded in the nature of things;
|         hence, unity of substance implies perfect correspondence of
|         qualities.
|
|     3.  Hence perfect veracity is of a distinct character from
|         cognizable veracity and it approaches quite as nearly
|         perfection of verisimilitude.  I will call it 'verity',
|         and the representation a 'type'.
|
|     4.  Since conceptions perfectly correspond with qualities
|         and since they have a connection therewith in the
|         nature of things, they are 'types' of things.
|
| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 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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