17 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Truth is the approximation of thought to reality
...reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We may look at the growth of knowledge … as an attempt by our mind to return to union with things as they are in their ordered wholeness…. and if we take this view, our notion of truth is marked out for us. Truth is the approximation of thought to reality … Its measure is the distance thought has travelled … toward that intelligible system … The degree of t...Folksonomies: empiricism reality
Folksonomies: empiricism reality
Our growth of knowledge is an "attempt by our mind to return to union with things as they are in their ordered wholeness."