The Indispensability of Truth
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Humanities scholars often hesitate to declare something true, but truth is indispensable. This essay surveys possible accounts of in analytic philosophy, before looking at the functioning everyday life and place work two leading theorists thought question or deny truth. Jacques Derrida critiques assumptions about embraces a drive towards Bruno Latour’s devoted showing how produced through complex systems. Truth not simple functions as both foundation goal.
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عنوان ژورنال: Central European cultures
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2786-068X', '2786-0671']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47075/cec.2022-2.01