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Single Idea 5651
[filed under theme 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth
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Full Idea
Kierkegaard developed the idea of 'truth as subjectivity'; the traditional conceptions of truth - correspondence or coherence - he regarded as equally empty, not because false, but because tautologous; truth ceases to be empty when related to a subject.
Gist of Idea
Traditional views of truth are tautologies, and truth is empty without a subject
Source
report of Søren Kierkegaard (Either/Or: a fragment of life [1843]) by Roger Scruton - Short History of Modern Philosophy Ch.13
Book Ref
Scruton,Roger: 'A Short History of Modern Philosophy' [ARK 1985], p.189
A Reaction
It strikes me that the correspondence theory of truth also involves a subject. If you become too obsessed with the subject, you lose the concept of truth. You need a concept of the non-subject too. Truth concerns the contents of thought.
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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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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I recognise knowledge, but it is the truth by which I can live and die that really matters
[Kierkegaard]
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The highest truth we can get is uncertainty held fast by an inward passion
[Kierkegaard]
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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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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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