Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Hermarchus, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Friedrich Nietzsche

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth
18731 There is no theory of truth, because it isn't a concept [Wittgenstein]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth
14853 Truth finds fewest champions not when it is dangerous, but when it is boring [Nietzsche]
20380 Why should truth be omnipotent? It is enough that it is very powerful [Nietzsche]
24082 Is the will to truth the desire to avoid deception? [Nietzsche]
24092 I tell the truth, even if it is repulsive [Nietzsche]
24114 The pain in truth is when it destroys a belief [Nietzsche]
11090 Why do we want truth, rather than falsehood or ignorance? The value of truth is a problem [Nietzsche]
23199 What is the search for truth if it isn't moral? [Nietzsche]
23202 Like all philosophers, I love truth [Nietzsche]
23715 Psychologists should be brave and proud, and prefer truth to desires, even when it is ugly [Nietzsche]
20357 Truth was given value by morality, but eventually turned against its own source [Nietzsche]
23520 Truth has had to be fought for, and normal life must be sacrificed to achieve it [Nietzsche]
2914 One must never ask whether truth is useful [Nietzsche]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 4. Uses of Truth
4534 'Truth' is the will to be master over the multiplicity of sensations [Nietzsche]
20235 Like animals, we seek truth because we want safety [Nietzsche]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 7. Falsehood
24075 Convictions, more than lies, are the great enemy of truth [Nietzsche]
18305 To love truth, you must know how to lie [Nietzsche]
4548 Only because there is thought is there untruth [Nietzsche]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth
24104 We don't create logic, time and space! The mind obeys laws because they are true [Nietzsche]
5652 True beliefs are those which augment one's power [Nietzsche, by Scruton]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 9. Rejecting Truth
4508 The truth is what gives us the minimum of spiritual effort, and avoids the exhaustion of lying [Nietzsche]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation
10910 The best account of truth-making is isomorphism [Wittgenstein, by Mulligan/Simons/Smith]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / c. States of affairs make truths
23462 He says the world is the facts because it is the facts which fix all the truths [Wittgenstein, by Morris,M]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 11. Truthmaking and Correspondence
18349 All truths have truth-makers, but only atomic truths correspond to them [Wittgenstein, by Rami]
3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
10967 Wittgenstein's picture theory is the best version of the correspondence theory of truth [Read on Wittgenstein]
7087 Language is [propositions-elementary propositions-names]; reality is [facts-states of affairs-objects] [Wittgenstein, by Grayling]
4702 The account of truth in the 'Tractatus' seems a perfect example of the correspondence theory [Wittgenstein, by O'Grady]
7056 Pictures reach out to or feel reality, touching at the edges, correlating in its parts [Wittgenstein]
18707 All thought has the logical form of reality [Wittgenstein]
3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts
23483 Proposition elements correlate with objects, but the whole picture does not correspond to a fact [Wittgenstein, by Morris,M]
3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth
4538 Judgements can't be true and known in isolation; the only surety is in connections and relations [Nietzsche]
3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 1. Redundant Truth
11074 'It is true that this follows' means simply: this follows [Wittgenstein]