Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"Truth is a matter of how our concepts carve nature at its joints."Sellars, Wilfrid
"Reality has a structure, but that structure is accessible only through conceptual frameworks."Sellars, Wilfrid
"Universals are not created by abstraction; they are discovered in the world."Sellars, Wilfrid
"Truth is not correspondence to reality but coherence within a systematic whole."Sellars, Wilfrid
"Reality constrains our concepts, but does not determine them uniquely."Sellars, Wilfrid
"Truth emerges from the dialogue between different perspectives and frameworks."Sellars, Wilfrid
"Truth in science is always provisional and subject to revision."Hempel, Carl
"Science demands intellectual honesty."Hempel, Carl
"The burden of proof lies with claims to knowledge."Hempel, Carl
"Truth is constrained by evidence."Hempel, Carl
"Truth in science is intersubjectively verifiable."Hempel, Carl
"Truth is the goal of inquiry."Hempel, Carl
"Truth emerges through testing and refutation."Hempel, Carl
"Truth is independent of belief."Hempel, Carl
"Truth constrains meaningful discourse."Hempel, Carl
"A thing is what it is; to say it is what it is not involves a logical absurdity."Geach, Peter
"We must distinguish between what a sentence means and what a speaker means by it."Geach, Peter
"The law of non-contradiction is not merely a law of thought but a law of being."Geach, Peter
"We cannot escape the logical structure of reality by clever thinking."Geach, Peter
"The concept of truth requires us to acknowledge an objective reality."Geach, Peter
"The verb 'to be' is the most fundamental yet most ambiguous word in any language."Geach, Peter
"The law of excluded middle is not negotiable in classical logic."Geach, Peter
"Arguments from authority have their place but cannot replace logical proof."Geach, Peter
"One cannot reject the principles of logic without rejecting reason itself."Geach, Peter
"Reality is structured in ways that our language imperfectly reflects."Geach, Peter
"Logic is not merely formal; it has profound metaphysical implications."Geach, Peter
"Contradiction remains the ultimate standard of falsity."Geach, Peter
"Truth is not made but discovered."Geach, Peter
"The substance of an argument lies in its logical structure."Geach, Peter
"To deny the principle of identity is to deny being itself."Geach, Peter