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Single Idea 19571

[filed under theme 3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth ]

Full Idea

The distinction between delusion and truth lies in the difference in their life functions.

Gist of Idea

Delusion and truth differ in their life functions

Source

Novalis (Miscellaneous Observations [1798], 008)

Book Ref

Novalis: 'Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Stoljar,M.M. [SUNY 1997], p.24

A Reaction

Pure pragmatism, it seems. We might expect doubts about objective truth from a leading light of the Romantic movement.

The 24 ideas with the same theme [truth as the aim of enquiry]:

19571 Delusion and truth differ in their life functions [Novalis]
7661 Truth is the opinion fated to be ultimately agreed by all investigators [Peirce]
15335 Peirce's theory offers anti-realist verificationism, but surely how things are is independent of us? [Horsten on Peirce]
14796 Independent truth (if there is any) is the ultimate result of sufficient enquiry [Peirce]
19246 'Holding for true' is either practical commitment, or provisional theory [Peirce]
21494 If truth is the end of enquiry, what if it never ends, or ends prematurely? [Atkin on Peirce]
19095 Pragmatic 'truth' is a term to cover the many varied aims of enquiry [Peirce, by Misak]
19097 Peirce did not think a belief was true if it was useful [Peirce, by Misak]
22305 If the hypothesis of God is widely successful, it is true [James]
18984 True ideas are those we can assimilate, validate, corroborate and verify (and false otherwise) [James]
7616 Truth is an idealisation of rational acceptability [Putnam]
8828 Truth is rational acceptability [Putnam]
2549 For James truth is "what it is better for us to believe" rather than a correct picture of reality [Rorty]
22665 Maybe James was depicting the value of truth, and not its nature [Nozick]
3884 The pragmatist does not really have a theory of truth [Scruton]
6627 Radical pragmatists abandon the notion of truth [Stich, by Lowe]
19086 Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth]
15336 The pragmatic theory of truth is relative; useful for group A can be useless for group B [Horsten]
19094 For pragmatists the loftiest idea of truth is just a feature of what remains forever assertible [Misak]
19099 'True' is used for emphasis, clarity, assertion, comparison, objectivity, meaning, negation, consequence... [Misak]
19100 Truth makes disagreements matter, or worth settling [Misak]
19103 'That's true' doesn't just refer back to a sentence, but implies sustained evidence for it [Misak]
19105 Truth isn't a grand elusive property, if it is just the aim of our assertions and inquiries [Misak]
19108 Truth is proper assertion, but that has varying standards [Misak]