Charles Sanders Peirce on the Realistic Character of Science

'The field of operations of the scientific method is the objective field of nature, and, as Peirce observed, "belief proper has nothing to do with science." The sudden recollection that the laws of science are not final formulations but are susceptible to later means of the operation of scientific method should not be taken to mean that subjectivity has been reintroduced. The established truths of science merely means "propositions to which no competent man of today demurs" until further applications of scientific method give him reason to do so.' F 48
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