To take the traditional notion of Truth seriously, you have to do more than agree that some beliefs are true and some false, and to call ‘true’ those which fit in best with your and other’s previous beliefs.
You must agree with Clough that ‘It fortifies my soul to know/That, though I perish, Truth is so.’
And one must feel uneasy at William James’s claim that ‘ideas ... become true just in so far as they help us to get into satisfactory relations with other parts of our experience.’
To call a statement “true” is no more than to say that it is good to steer our practice by.
Is truth no more than a way of preaching fixity in a moving world.
For truth to be true it has to be eternal, otherwise it is just historically utilitarian as and as eternity is beyond our comprehension
You must agree with Clough that ‘It fortifies my soul to know/That, though I perish, Truth is so.’
And one must feel uneasy at William James’s claim that ‘ideas ... become true just in so far as they help us to get into satisfactory relations with other parts of our experience.’
To call a statement “true” is no more than to say that it is good to steer our practice by.
Is truth no more than a way of preaching fixity in a moving world.
For truth to be true it has to be eternal, otherwise it is just historically utilitarian as and as eternity is beyond our comprehension
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