14040 | Observation and applied thought are always true [Epicurus] |
3610 | Truth is clear and distinct conception - of which it is hard to be sure [Descartes] |
2266 | My general rule is that everything that I perceive clearly and distinctly is true [Descartes] |
4301 | Someone may think a thing is 'clear and distinct', but be wrong [Leibniz on Descartes] |
5641 | For Spinoza, 'adequacy' is the intrinsic mark of truth [Spinoza, by Scruton] |
13157 | Choose the true hypothesis, which is the most intelligible one [Leibniz] |
5022 | We hold a proposition true if we are ready to follow it, and can't see any objections [Leibniz] |
5651 | Traditional views of truth are tautologies, and truth is empty without a subject [Kierkegaard, by Scruton] |
22094 | Subjective truth can only be sustained by repetition [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
16005 | I recognise knowledge, but it is the truth by which I can live and die that really matters [Kierkegaard] |
20313 | The highest truth we can get is uncertainty held fast by an inward passion [Kierkegaard] |
24104 | We don't create logic, time and space! The mind obeys laws because they are true [Nietzsche] |
5652 | True beliefs are those which augment one's power [Nietzsche, by Scruton] |
19144 | 'Epistemic' truth depends what rational creatures can verify [Davidson] |
8705 | Anti-realists see truth as our servant, and epistemically contrained [Friend] |