Truth Quotes

"Truth is produced through procedures and institutions, not discovered in some independent reality."

"We are invited to confess our desires, our doubts, our secrets, and in doing so we become subjects of knowledge."

"The true paradox is only the paradox that is true."

"The pursuit of truth is more valuable than the possession of it."

"There can be no ultimate standards. There is no truth in the absolute sense."

"In searching for the truth, you have to follow the argument wherever it leads."

"I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth."

"Bad faith is the denial of our radical freedom."

"The facticity of the situation is that which cannot be changed."

"Bad faith is the attitude of those who flee freedom."

"Proper names are rigid designators that refer to the same object in all possible worlds."

"Essentialism is not mysticism; it is the recognition of real distinctions in nature."

"Skepticism about the external world rests on an assumption we need not grant."

"The same substance in different possible worlds constitutes the same essence."

"The causal theory of reference vindicates our ordinary understanding of how names work."

"Proper names carry no descriptive content, only historical chains of communication."

"A thing can be essentially what it is while being contingently what else it is."

"Names are not abbreviations for descriptions, no matter how natural they seem."

"The private language argument does not establish the impossibility of private experiences."

"The world contains genuine de re modalities, not merely de dicto truths."

"The necessity of identity is not a linguistic phenomenon but a metaphysical one."

"Yet the connection between meaning and reference is more subtle than descriptivism allows."

"Identity through time is neither a matter of convention nor mere physical continuity."

"Possible worlds provide the framework for understanding modality rigorously."

"Reference is determined by the actual causal-historical connections between speaker and object."

"Identity statements are necessarily true, not merely true in fact."

"Essentialism need not commit us to unknowable natures or occult properties."

"Necessity is not epistemic; it is a feature of the world itself."

"The necessity of origin follows from the causal account of identity."

"An object's origin is essential to its identity, not merely contingent."