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Single Idea 5022
[filed under theme 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth
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Full Idea
A proposition is held to be true by us when our mind is ready to follow it and no reason for doubting it can be found.
Gist of Idea
We hold a proposition true if we are ready to follow it, and can't see any objections
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (Introduction to a Secret Encyclopaedia [1679], p.7)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Parkinson,G.H.R. [Dent 1973], p.7
A Reaction
This follows on from Descartes' view, but it now sounds more like psychology than metaphysics. Clearly a false proposition could fit this desciption. Personally I follow propositions to which I can see no objection, without actually holding them true.
The
15 ideas
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[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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'Epistemic' truth depends what rational creatures can verify
[Davidson]
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Anti-realists see truth as our servant, and epistemically contrained
[Friend]
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