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Single Idea 22094
[filed under theme 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth
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Full Idea
If subjective truth is to be more than momentary, it has to be repeated continually.
Gist of Idea
Subjective truth can only be sustained by repetition
Source
report of Søren Kierkegaard (Repetition [1843]) by Clare Carlisle - Kierkegaard: a guide for the perplexed 4
Book Ref
Carlisle,Clare: 'Kierkegaard: guide for the perplexed' [Continuum 2006], p.73
A Reaction
This might apply to more traditional concepts of truth, if they are to be part of life, rather than remaining in books.
The
15 ideas
with the same theme
[no truth, apart from the way individuals see things]:
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Observation and applied thought are always true
[Epicurus]
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3610
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Truth is clear and distinct conception - of which it is hard to be sure
[Descartes]
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2266
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My general rule is that everything that I perceive clearly and distinctly is true
[Descartes]
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4301
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Someone may think a thing is 'clear and distinct', but be wrong
[Leibniz on Descartes]
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5641
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For Spinoza, 'adequacy' is the intrinsic mark of truth
[Spinoza, by Scruton]
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13157
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Choose the true hypothesis, which is the most intelligible one
[Leibniz]
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5022
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We hold a proposition true if we are ready to follow it, and can't see any objections
[Leibniz]
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5651
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Traditional views of truth are tautologies, and truth is empty without a subject
[Kierkegaard, by Scruton]
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22094
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Subjective truth can only be sustained by repetition
[Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]
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16005
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I recognise knowledge, but it is the truth by which I can live and die that really matters
[Kierkegaard]
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20313
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The highest truth we can get is uncertainty held fast by an inward passion
[Kierkegaard]
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24104
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We don't create logic, time and space! The mind obeys laws because they are true
[Nietzsche]
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5652
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True beliefs are those which augment one's power
[Nietzsche, by Scruton]
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19144
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'Epistemic' truth depends what rational creatures can verify
[Davidson]
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8705
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Anti-realists see truth as our servant, and epistemically contrained
[Friend]
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