
Nihilism
In Our Time: Philosophy
The Importance of Empirical Truth in Philosophy
I'm very doubtful about whether we can have truth in any sense of the term that would be understood in ordinary languages, meaning truth. It seems to me that there simply can be no certainty that the language in which we formulate truth matches the world about which we would tell the truth. A great deal of philosophy in the 20th century has been concerned with problematizing that notion that we can have the truth. And I'd like to suggest that we might put our goals somewhere else, somewhere that we could hope to get to.
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