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If you study any philosophical treatise of our present era you will with almost absolute certainty not<\/i> encounter the concept, and much less the expression, \u201cthe truth of all things.\u201d\u009d This is no mere accident. The generally prevailing philosophical thinking of our time has no room at all for this concept; it is, as it were, \u201cnot provided for.\u201d\u009d It makes sense to speak of truth with regard to thoughts, ideas, statements, opinions\u201d\u201dbut not with regard to things. Our judgments regarding reality may be true (or false); but to label as \u201ctrue\u201d\u009d reality itself, the \u201cthings,\u201d\u009d appears to be rather meaningless, mere nonsense. Things are real, not \u201ctrue\u201d\u009d!<\/p>\n
Looking at the historical development of this situation, we find that there is much more to it than the simple fact of a certain concept or expression not being used; we find not merely the \u201cneutral\u201d\u009d absence, as it were, of a certain way of thinking. No, the nonuse and absence of the concept, \u201cthe truth of all things,\u201d\u009d is rather the result of a long process of biased discrimination and suppression or, to use a less aggressive term: of elimination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
–Josef Pieper: An Anthology (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1989 E.T. of the 1981 original), pp. 95-96<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you study any philosophical treatise of our present era you will with almost absolute certainty not encounter the concept, and much less the expression, \u201cthe truth of all things.\u201d\u009d This is no mere accident. The generally prevailing philosophical thinking…<\/span><\/p>\n