Reasoning Is Nada if There Is No Truth

So the truth is what is so. I am surrounded by so-ness. That book on the table, the sound in my ear.

That face on the screen is someone who exists because why? Oh, reasoning is steps after a while.

But the goal and result is always and ever truth.

And two words slip in.

If it is just.

And whether you believe it or not.

We are in metaphysical, supposition territory.

But Peirce is better than prior philosophers. He takes us to the scientific and demonstrable.

And he makes the fruits of our acts and thoughts the standard by which we are known, indeed the substance of all considerations.

Peirce: CP 2.135 Cross-Ref:††

§3. THE OBJECTIVITY OF TRUTH

135. You certainly opine that there is such a thing as Truth. Otherwise, reasoning and thought would be without a purpose. What do you mean by there being such a thing as Truth? You mean that something is SO — is correct, or just — whether you, or I, or anybody thinks it is so or not. Most persons, no doubt, opine that for every question susceptible of being answered by yes or no, one of these answers is true and the other false. Perhaps that is carrying the doctrine to an extravagant pitch.†1 At any rate, the mere fact that you wish to learn logic would not prove that you go so far as that. It only shows that you think that some question — some interesting question, what one, perhaps, you are not just now prepared to say — has one answer which is decidedly right, whatever people may think about it. The essence of the opinion is that there is something that is SO, no matter if there be an overwhelming vote against it. So you plainly opine. For if thinking otherwise is going to make it otherwise, there is no use in reasoning or in studying logic.