Truth Quotes

"The logical structure of a statement determines its truth conditions."

"Truth requires both an adequate concept and an adequate reality."

"Logic is not a constraint on reality; it is the form of reality."

"Identity through time is a puzzle, but convention often solves it."

"Convention is sometimes all we need to ground objective facts."

"Counterfactual dependence underlies our understanding of causation."

"Convention plays a larger role in meaning than we often admit."

"Truthmakers explain why propositions are true or false."

"Natural kinds are discovered, not invented by us."

"Identity conditions matter for what counts as an object."

"Truthmakers must be truthmakers for something specific."

"Identity through time depends partly on convention."

"Relations are as fundamental as monadic properties."

"Truthmakers explain the grounding relation between truth and being."

"Absences and negations are not always genuine truthmakers."

"Truthmaker theories must avoid profligate multiplication of entities."

"Truth is grounded in the nature of things, not merely in language."

"Being and reality are fundamentally tied to the possible and actual."

"Truthmakers ground propositions in the fundamental constituents of reality."

"We must be wary of the assumption that every word corresponds to a distinct entity or process."

"The nature of truth cannot be understood apart from the ways we use language to describe the world."

"The nature of prejudice is that it involves accepting judgments without proper evidence or reasoning."

"Authenticity is a matter of genuine engagement with one's activities and relationships, not pretense."

"Sincerity involves not merely saying what one believes but saying it with genuine conviction."

"Honesty is not brutal frankness but truthfulness tempered with consideration for others' feelings."

"The speaker who observes the maxims creates the presumption of being cooperative and trustworthy."

"The maxim of quality demands that we speak truthfully, or at least what we believe to be true."

"Truth in conversation is always relative to context and mutual understanding."

"Sincerity is not guaranteed by words alone, but by the speaker's commitment to truth."

"Truth is not simply what corresponds to reality, but what we are willing to assert."