WOF 342: Breaking Through the Buffered Self
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Aristotle's Definition of Truth
truth exists primarily or exclusively, inhere, in the mind. But this is to miss so much of the flavour and texture of what the definition is meant to convey. If we take adequantio to mean something like adjusting or equalizing, we see there is a truth already existing in things that makes truth in the mind possible. Intelligence and intelligibility bring each other to act in his latin, intellectus in actu est intelligible in actu. That means that knowing in act is the intelligible in act, each one, as it were, illuminating the other. We're a world removed from anything like the cool observer forming an interior image of the worldly object.
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