The Notion of Truth in Peirce’s Earliest System

[[abstract]]The main purpose of this paper is to unravel the notion of truth embedded in Peirce's earliest philosophical works composed around 1859-1862. First, we show that, for the young Peirce, there are three factors affecting the determination of the truth of a proposition: the agreement of proposition with its object, the normality of our cognitive faculties and the illative relation of the proposition to other propositions. Second, we show how they are related. In doing so, it becomes clear that some of Peirce's later philosophical theses are traceable to the works predating his famous cognition series.[[fileno]]2040801010004[[department]]哲學研究