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Kierkegaard's truth draws on authenticity, fidelity and honesty [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]
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Full Idea:
Kierkegaard offers a different interpretation of truth, which draws on the notions of authenticity, fidelity and honesty.
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From:
report of Søren Kierkegaard (Concluding Unscientific Postscript [1846]) by Clare Carlisle - Kierkegaard: a guide for the perplexed 4
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A reaction:
This notion of truth, meaning 'the real thing' (as in 'she was a true scholar'), seems to begin with Hegel. I suggest we use the word 'genuine' for that, and save 'truth' for its traditional role. It is disastrous to blur the simple concept of truth.
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Pure truth is for infinite beings only; I prefer endless striving for truth [Kierkegaard]
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Full Idea:
If God held all truth enclosed in his right hand, and in his left hand the ever-striving drive for truth, even if erring forever, and he were to say Choose! I would humbly fall at his left hand and say Father, give! Pure truth is for infinite beings only.
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From:
Søren Kierkegaard (Concluding Unscientific Postscript [1846], p.106)
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A reaction:
A sobering realistic thought of our own limitations; Kierkegaard allows that there is no limit to how far we can strive for truth. Just that truth is comprehended by infinite beings (if any), not by mere mortals. [SY]
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Graspable presentations are criteria of facts, and are molded according to their objects [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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Full Idea:
Of presentations, some are graspable, some non-graspable. The graspable presentation, which they say is the criterion of facts [pragmata], is that which comes from an existing object and is stamped and molded in accordance wth the existing object itself.
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From:
report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.46
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A reaction:
[in lost Physics Bk 2] The big modern anguish over truth-as-correspondence is how you are supposed to verify the 'accordance'. This idea seems to blur the ideas of truth and justification (the 'criterion'), and you can't have both as accordance.
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