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| 21356 | Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends [Aristotle] |
| Full Idea: While both are dear, piety requires us to honour truth above our friends. | |
| From: Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1096a16) | |
| A reaction: Interesting that 'piety' requires it. Piety doesn't figure much in Aristotle. He has just been talking about Platonic Forms. It would be an odd person who sacrificed a friendship for a trivial truth. |
| 35 | A statement is true if all the data are in harmony with it [Aristotle] |
| Full Idea: A statement is true if all the data are in harmony with it. | |
| From: Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1098b12) | |
| A reaction: I think being 'in harmony' is a better than 'corresponds' as an attempt at pinpointing the truth relationship. It seems impossible to pin down how 'the bus is coming' relates to the bus coming. |