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Full Idea
Once a belief is established the police will guarantee its 'truth' sooner or later.
Gist of Idea
Eventually every 'truth' is guaranteed by the police
Source
E.M. Cioran (A Short History of Decay [1949], 6 'Views')
Book Ref
Cioran,E.M.: 'A Short History of Decay', ed/tr. Howard,Richard [Penguin 2010], p.176
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| 4508 | The truth is what gives us the minimum of spiritual effort, and avoids the exhaustion of lying [Nietzsche] |
| 18986 | Truth is just a name for verification-processes [James] |
| 15569 | Heidegger says truth is historical, and never absolute [Heidegger, by Polt] |
| 19636 | Truth is just an error insufficiently experienced [Cioran] |
| 19642 | Eventually every 'truth' is guaranteed by the police [Cioran] |
| 15042 | Truth doesn't arise from solitary freedom, but from societies with constraints [Foucault] |
| 21877 | True thoughts are inaccessible, in the subconscious, prior to speech or writing [Derrida] |
| 4756 | Derrida says that all truth-talk is merely metaphor [Derrida, by Engel] |
| 4726 | Rorty seems to view truth as simply being able to hold one's view against all comers [Rorty, by O'Grady] |
| 10820 | In the early 1930s many philosophers thought truth was not scientific [Field,H] |