
Nihilism
In Our Time: Philosophy
The Importance of Truth in Philosophy
There are two modes of truth, very crudely, and this has come out of the conversation. Coherence-type truth is one that appears to be true because it coheres with other statements. Correspondent truth is an assertion that really is true because it corresponds to some state of affairsout there. The show with Nietzsche was that his idea of truth and lie next to moral sense, in a way, made all truths vulnerable like coherent truths are.
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