Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"What we call reality is a collaborative construction."
Fine, Arthur
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"Our deepest truths are often our most provisional."
Fine, Arthur
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"Truth is not what we find, but what we make together."
Fine, Arthur
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"We must distinguish between what is said and what is meant."
Geach, Peter
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"To say something is true is to say it corresponds to reality."
Geach, Peter
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"The law of non-contradiction is not conventional but fundamental."
Geach, Peter
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"Facts are not linguistic entities but worldly entities."
Geach, Peter
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"We must be careful to distinguish names from descriptions."
Geach, Peter
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"Truth is objective, though human truth-assertions are fallible."
Geach, Peter
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"The notion of truth conditions is essential to semantic analysis."
Geach, Peter
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"To say something is necessary is to deny it could be otherwise."
Geach, Peter
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"The law of excluded middle holds in all domains of being."
Geach, Peter
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"Reality has a determinate structure independent of human cognition."
Geach, Peter
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"The principle of contradiction is the foundation of all reasoning."
Geach, Peter
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"To assert a sentence is to express one's belief in its truth."
Geach, Peter
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"Reality is not constructed by the mind but disclosed to it."
Geach, Peter
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"The ghost in the machine is merely a myth."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"Careless speech is not innocent."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"Meaning is not a thing but a use."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"Truth is not correspondence but coherence with practice."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"The possibility of error is presupposed by knowledge."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"Solipsism is incoherent on its own terms."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"Meaning emerges from the form of life itself."
Ryle, Gilbert
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"Identity through time is not a simple matter of continuity, but a complex web of interconnected facts."
Fine, Kit
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"We carve reality at its joints only when we understand its genuine structure."
Fine, Kit
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"To say something is true is to say it matches the world, not merely our preferences."
Fine, Kit
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"To deny the reality of properties is to make language utterly mysterious."
Fine, Kit
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"Vagueness in language does not entail vagueness in the world itself."
Fine, Kit
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"To say something is real is to say it has a determinate nature."
Fine, Kit
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"To deny that some things are necessarily true is to undermine all knowledge."
Fine, Kit