Record in the Commens Bibliography. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/bibliography/journal_article/apel-karl-otto-2001-pragmatism-sense-critical-realism-based-regulative, 27.02.2021.
Title:
Pragmatism as Sense-Critical Realism Based on a Regulative Idea of Truth: In Defense of a Peircean Theory of Reality and Truth
Journal:
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
Keywords:
Reality, Truth, Jürgen Habermas, Consensus Theory of Truth, Pragmatism
Abstract:
Examines a pragmatist theory of reality and truth according to philosopher Charles Peirce. Analysis of idealizations in the theory of Peirce; Significance of the revocation of the consensus theory of truth by philosopher Jürgen Habermas to the interpretation of Peirce's version of pragmatism; Discussion on the connection between knowable reality and truth-capability of thought.