Single Idea 22317

[catalogued under 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 6. Verisimilitude]

Full Idea

What is only half true is untrue. Truth does not admit of more and less.

Gist of Idea

Truth does not admit of more and less

Source

Gottlob Frege (works [1890], CP 353), quoted by Michael Potter - The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930 48 'Truth'

Book Reference

Potter,Michael: 'The Rise of Anaytic Philosophy 1879-1930' [Routledge 2020], p.325


A Reaction

What about a measurement which is accurate to three decimal places? Maybe being 'close to' the truth is not the same as being 'more' true. The truth about a distance between two points is unknowable?

Related Idea

Idea 575 If one error is worse than another, it must be because it is further from the truth [Aristotle]