If we only knew all the false stuff in our minds, “if we truly put them to the test,” this “ought to upset our whole life.” (169) (169)Ĭamus thinks that “practical assent” and “simulated ignorance” allow us to live with false and contradictory ideas. Therefore, we can get at truth without slipping into some vicious circleĪs Camus writes: “These are again truisms… I know another truism: it tells me that man is mortal.” (168-169)Ĭamus instructs – constantly keep before you the great gap between what we think we know and what we really know. If this point can itself be made, then it seems that we’re really not so hopeless and helpless to get at truth. This is a “vicious circle” that “is enough to stifle our hopes.”īUT NOTE: Camus is using logic/reasoning to make this very point.This very assertion proves its own difference and the diversity it claimed to resolve. ![]() “That nostalgia for unity, that appetite for the absolute illustrates the essential impulse of the human drama.” (168) “To understand is, above all, to unify.” (168) “The mind that aims to understand reality can be considered itself satisfied only by reducing it to terms of thought.” (168) This means, for a person: to reduce reality to thought. “For the one who expresses a true assertion proclaims simultaneously that t is true, and so on ad infinitum.” X2 – It is true that it is true that God does not exist. Then, we apply truth to that statement only, and we get: X1 - It is true that God does not exist.īut then: is X1 true? If we say yes, we then generate statement X2, which is: Which is absurd.īut… what if we say something different than this.įor example: If we say, God does not exist. This is contradictory, because then the statement “All is false” is false. Then this statement’s contrary (All is false) is true. ![]() How difficult, even impossible, “to distinguish what is true from what is false.”
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