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"Celui qui prendrait ce que j'écris pour la vérité serait peut-être moins dans l'erreur que celui qui le prendrait pour une fable"

De la vérité comme adæquatio à la vérité comme processus dans la philosophie de Diderot

Paolo Quintili
p. 17-33

Abstracts

From truth as correspondence to truth as process in Diderot’s thought
According to Epimenides the Cretan (7th Century B.C.E), whose famous paradox was refuted rationally only after the l4th Century, truth is a divine revelation which we ‘possess’ (aletheia). Following him, Western philosophy (Aristotle, Aquinas) tended to present it as a correspondence (adæquatio) between the thing and the mind. While certain moderns (Descartes, Leibniz) transformed this substantialist relationship into a more functionalist conception, Diderot goes further in the same direction. The position that he defends claims that truth is realised in a diachronic process of the construction of meaning. This original and fertile point of view is clarified by an analysis of the Interprétation de la nature, followed by a study of the occurrences of truth and true in Le Neveu de Rameau.

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Bibliographical reference

Paolo Quintili, “De la vérité comme adæquatio à la vérité comme processus dans la philosophie de Diderot”Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, 30 | 2001, 17-33.

Electronic reference

Paolo Quintili, “De la vérité comme adæquatio à la vérité comme processus dans la philosophie de Diderot”Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie [Online], 30 | avril 2001, Online since 17 June 2006, connection on 18 April 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rde/68; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rde.68

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