Truth Quotes

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

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"Subjective experience must be part of any complete account of reality."
Chalmers, David
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"The explanatory gap will not disappear with more neuroscience alone."
Chalmers, David
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"Consciousness deserves a central place in our conception of reality."
Chalmers, David
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"We must resist the temptation to dismiss consciousness as merely emergent complexity."
Chalmers, David
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"Subjective experience is real, irreducible, and scientifically significant."
Chalmers, David
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"The explanatory gap reveals something profound about the limits of reductionism."
Chalmers, David
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"Subjective experience is as fundamental as any physical property we study."
Chalmers, David
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"The explanatory gap is not a failure of science but a revelation of its limits."
Chalmers, David
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"Skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin."
Gödel, Kurt
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"What cannot be expressed in equations may still be true."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Mathematics is the purest form of truth we possess."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Mathematics is the language of eternal truths."
Gödel, Kurt
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"What we call truth is merely our best current understanding."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Truth is eternal, but our understanding of it is temporary."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Truth is not independent of language; it is expressed through our conceptual schemes."
Dummett, Michael
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"The meaning of a proper name is exhausted by its referent."
Dummett, Michael
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"The correspondence theory of truth requires a coherent account of what reality is."
Dummett, Michael
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"The bivalence principle cannot be maintained without a realist metaphysics."
Dummett, Michael
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"Truth-conditions are not mysterious entities but features of our linguistic practice."
Dummett, Michael
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"Reality resists complete conceptualization; there is always a remainder."
Dummett, Michael
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"Identity is not an absolute relation but depends on our sortal classifications."
Dummett, Michael
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"The distinction between appearance and reality is not absolute but relative to interests."
Dummett, Michael
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"Reality has no absolute structure; structure emerges relative to our conceptual schemes."
Dummett, Michael
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"Our conception of truth must be compatible with our understanding of language."
Dummett, Michael
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"The correspondence theory of truth works best for observable statements about the world."
Dummett, Michael
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"Truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it."
Jackson, Frank
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"The truth will set you free."
Jackson, Frank
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"Objectivity itself is a human perspective, not a view from nowhere."
Nagel, Thomas
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"The subjective aspect of experience cannot be eliminated from any complete account of reality."
Nagel, Thomas
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"Value cannot be reduced to preference or desire; it involves a dimension of objectivity."
Nagel, Thomas