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“This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.”

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Author:Brian Perkins

“'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.”

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Book:The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

Source: The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

“Truth is something we discover by carrying it out. It is not a list of statements, but a direction of life.”

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Author:David Steindl-Rast

“We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.”

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Author:J. L. Austin

“Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.”

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Book:Collected Impressions

Source: Collected Impressions

“If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.”

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Author:Karl Kraus

“Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.”

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Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion).”

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Book:Wholeness and the Implicate Order

Source: Wholeness and the Implicate Order