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... "Truth is that to which the community ultimately settles down" (Charles Peirce). Analyse and evaluate this claim. Truth, according to The Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary, is a judgment, proposition or idea that is true, or accepted as true. Well, then when is something true? True, again according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, is when something is in accordance with reality of a proven fact. Well, then what constitutes a reality? Merriam Webster states that reality is the quality or state of something being real. Well, then what is real? The questions could go on and on, like you had just 5 discovered the word why when you were six. The concept of truth proves to be just as fascinating. However, I believe the dictionary to be wrong about a couple of things. Truth, I think, while often interpreted as concrete, is actually an objective word. I believe truth
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