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