Abstract
1 A century or so ago, C. S. Peirce wrote, “in order to reason well . . ., it is absolutely necessary to possess . . . such virtues as intellectual honesty and sincerity and a real love of truth,”2 and that genuine reasoning consists “in actually drawing the bow upon truth with intentness in the eye, with energy in the arm.”3 Forty years or so ago, C. I. Lewis observed that “we presume, on the part of those who follow any scientific vocation, . . . a sort of tacit oath never to subordinate the motive of objective truth-seeking to any subjective preference or inclination or any expediency or opportunistic consideration.”4 These philosophers had some insight into what the life of the mind demands.
