Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It

I am all for uttering true propositions, as many as possible. I am not arguing against the truth of propositions; I am arguing that truth cannot be confined to propositions.

We saw the truth as something that could

For Descartes, truth was a matter of life and death. He perfectly embodies this singular and powerful aspect of mathematical psychology: his relationship to the truth is physical, almost carnal: I constantly felt a burning desire to learn to distinguish the true from the false, to see my actions for what they were, and to proceed with confidence th

Where postmodernism failed because it was inherently incoherent, the post-truth mindset may succeed because it is not. It faces the problem of truth head-on.