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.
2002
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Rilevanza internazionale
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Settore M-FIL/06 - STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
French
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verità, processo, interpretazione
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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.
Quintili, P
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