According to Epimenides the Cretan (7th Century B.C.E), whose famous paradox was refuted rationally only after the 14th Century, truth is a divine revelation which we 'possess' (aletheia). Following him, Western philosophy (Aristotle, Aquinas) tended to present it as a correspondence (adaequatio) between the thing and the mind. While certain moderns (Descartes, Leibniz) transformed this substantialist relationship into a more functionalist conception, Diderot goes further in the same direction. The position that he defends claims that truth is realised in a diachronic process of the construction of meaning. This original and fertile point of view is clarified by an analysis of the Interpretation de la nature, followed by a study of the occurrences of truth and true in Le Neveu de Rameau.
Quintili, P. (2002). From truth as correspondence to truth as process in Diderot's thought [De la verite' comme adaequatio a' la verite' comme processus dans la philosophie de Diderot]. RECHERCHES SUR DIDEROT ET SUR L'ENCYCLOPEDIE(30), 16-37.
From truth as correspondence to truth as process in Diderot's thought [De la verite' comme adaequatio a' la verite' comme processus dans la philosophie de Diderot]
QUINTILI, PAOLO
2002-01-01
Abstract
According to Epimenides the Cretan (7th Century B.C.E), whose famous paradox was refuted rationally only after the 14th Century, truth is a divine revelation which we 'possess' (aletheia). Following him, Western philosophy (Aristotle, Aquinas) tended to present it as a correspondence (adaequatio) between the thing and the mind. While certain moderns (Descartes, Leibniz) transformed this substantialist relationship into a more functionalist conception, Diderot goes further in the same direction. The position that he defends claims that truth is realised in a diachronic process of the construction of meaning. This original and fertile point of view is clarified by an analysis of the Interpretation de la nature, followed by a study of the occurrences of truth and true in Le Neveu de Rameau.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.