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Ideas for 'Causes and Counterfactuals', 'The Need for Roots' and 'The Rediscovery of the Mind'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

23853	Truth is not a object we love - it is the radiant manifestation of reality [Weil]
	Full Idea: Love of truth is not a correct form of expression. Truth is not an object of love. It is not an object at all. …Truth is the radiant manifestation of reality.
	From: Simone Weil (The Need for Roots [1943], III 'Growing')
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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

3508	Correspondence to the facts HAS to be the aim of enquiry [Searle]
	Full Idea: It does not matter whether "true" does mean corresponds to the facts, because "corresponds to the facts" does mean corresponds to the facts, and any discipline that aims to describe how the world is aims for this correspondence.
	From: John Searle (The Rediscovery of the Mind [1992], Ch.10.V)