“Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.”
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) British philosopher
No. 6.
Aphorisms (1930)
“The search for necessary truths, truths that are not only true, but they couldn’t have been false.”
In the Veery journal interview in 1996, in reply to the question of "What is the most rewarding aspect of philosophy?" presented by Veery editor Steven Vita, later reprinted in 1997 in the Austin American-Statesman and then quoted from in The New York Times obituary entitled “Charles Hartshorne, Theologian, Is Dead; Proponent of an Activist God Was 103.”
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“There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth.”
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Aphorism 19
Novum Organum (1620), Book I
Context: There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
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“We can never add more truth to what is true already, nor make that true which is false.”
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757) French writer, satirist and philosopher of enlightenment
p, 125
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“You cannot possess the truth, you can only search for it.”
Albert Jacquard (1925–2013) French biologist
La vérité ne se possède pas, elle se cherche.
[Albert Jacquard, Petite philosophie à l'usage des non-philosophes, Quebec Livres, 1997, 2920596179].
