Truth as Conformation in Herbert of Cherbury
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21363556 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Pickstock (0000-0002-4356-811X, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 1102 |
| Pages | 857-872 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Blackfriars (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4289 • E-ISSN: 1741-2005 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/nbfr.12602 |
| OpenAlex | W3112260241 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Thomas Aquinas, like many other, but by no means all medieval theologians and philosophers, espoused a theory of truth by identity. Truth exists primarily in the mind, but insofar as it realises the truth of things , truth exists in things also. Both truth and meaning are inherent to form, which shines forth in things to render them as things, or as exemplars of universal essences. In the event and act of knowledge, form as species migrates from things into one's mind by a process involving at once passive stamping, active abstraction, and imaginative mediation. To know in this manner is to manifest, and express further the truth of things which is intrinsic to their very being. It is not merely to think logically or coherently, or to judge correctly as to evidence, though these things are certainly involved. Nor is it to ‘represent’ in a detached fashion a supposedly objective reality that is in itself alien to meaning or truthfulness
Aesthetics · Coherence theory of truth · Epistemology · Event (particle physics) · Existential quantification · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Logical truth · Meaning (existential) · Mediation · Physics · Pragmatic theory of truth · Sociology · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |