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Single Idea 3610
[filed under theme 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth
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Full Idea
I take it as a general rule that the things we conceive very clearly and very distinctly are all true, but that there is merely some difficulty in properly discerning which are those which we distinctly conceive.
Gist of Idea
Truth is clear and distinct conception - of which it is hard to be sure
Source
René Descartes (A Discourse on Method [1637], §4.33)
Book Ref
Descartes,René: 'Discourse on Method/The Meditations', ed/tr. Sutcliffe,F.E. [Penguin 1968], p.54
The
15 ideas
with the same theme
[no truth, apart from the way individuals see things]:
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14040
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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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