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Single Idea 8098

[from 'Notebooks' by Joseph Joubert, in 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth ]

Full Idea

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

Gist of Idea

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has

Source

Joseph Joubert (Notebooks [1800], 1800)

Book Reference

Joubert,Joseph: 'Notebooks', ed/tr. Auster,Paul [nyrb 2005], p.60


A Reaction

Presumably sceptics about the existence of objective truth must also be sceptical about the possibility of such a God. I think Joubert is close to the nature of truth here. It is a remote and barely imaginable ideal.