section_path: Views/Modern philosophy/Peirce (1839–1914)
section_name: Peirce (1839–1914)
paragraph_text: Peirce (1839–1914)
  
  Pragmatists like C. S. Peirce take truth to have some manner of essential relation to human practices for inquiring into and discovering truth, with Peirce himself holding that truth is what human inquiry would find out on a matter, if our practice of inquiry were taken as far as it could profitably go: "The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth..."