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Single Idea 10914

[from 'Metaphysics' by Aristotle, in 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth ]

Full Idea

It is not in states of affairs that truth and falsity arise but in thinking. And for things that are simple and for essences, truth and falsity do not even arise in thinking.

Gist of Idea

Simple and essential truth seems to be given, with further truth arising in thinking

Source

Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1027b27)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.163


A Reaction

This might be viewed in the light of Tarski's theory, and the distinction between atomic sentences, which are just accepted, with a recursive account of more complex statements. Aristotle seems to have two theories of truth here (Cf. Idea 10916).

Related Idea

Idea 10916 Truth is either intuiting a way of being, or a putting together [Aristotle]