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