Best truth-is & propositions Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.”

World Important Real Interest Interesting Failing Truth Is Importance Add Philosopher Being True Judgement Real World Propositions

Book:Process and Reality

Source: Process and Reality

“Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.”

Ifs May Truth Strange Truth Is Increase Being True Propositions Strange Things

Book:The Life of Johnson: with Maxims and Observations: Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Selected from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order

Source: The Life of Johnson: with Maxims and Observations: Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Selected from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order

“The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.”

World Mean Whole Truth Form Quality Truth Is Ideals All Things Eternity Propositions Omniscience

Book:Character and Opinion in the United States

Source: Character and Opinion in the United States

“In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.”

Science Given Example Truth Is Mathematics Mathematical Indifferent Propositions Objectivity

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.”

Love Truth Science Greater Atheism Truth Is Built Mark Proof Entertaining Propositions Assurance Warrants

Author:John Locke

“A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.”

Certain Impossible Truth Is Contradiction Propositions Tautology

Book:Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

Source: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

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