Truth Condition Quotes

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.

The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.