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Full Idea
'True' thoughts are inaccessible, buried in the subconscious, long before they get to speech or writing.
Gist of Idea
True thoughts are inaccessible, in the subconscious, prior to speech or writing
Source
Jacques Derrida (works [1990]), quoted by Barry Stocker - Derrida on Deconstruction
Book Ref
Stocker,Barry: 'Derrida on Deconstruction' [Routledge 2006], p.82
A Reaction
[My reading of some Derrida produced no quotations. I've read two commentaries, which were obscure. The Derrida ideas in this db are my simplistic tertiary summaries. Experts can chuckle over my failure]
| 21248 | If the existence of truth is denied, the 'Truth does not exist' must be true! [Aquinas] |
| 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] |
| 4756 | Derrida says that all truth-talk is merely metaphor [Derrida, by Engel] |
| 21877 | True thoughts are inaccessible, in the subconscious, prior to speech or writing [Derrida] |
| 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] |