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Gianni Vattimo writes:
In other words, the proposition “truth does not exist” is patently meant to be a descriptive, objective truth and therefore it is patently contradictory to utter it – never mind that truth does not properly “exist” or “not exist,” but is, if anything, assertible or not assertible. What does exist is a common language in which these effects of contradiction emerge, and to take that into account is what’s important. Thus it is possible for me to affirm that truth dies like God dies. And just as the death (and birth) of God in Christianity is an aspect of God, forms part of his nature, likewise this contradictory death of truth belongs to the nature of truth.
The discourse becomes completely different. There is history, the meaning of which I must understand: I must account for why it is that today the term “truth” is used differently, and why it is in a certain sense true that “we no longer possess the truth.” The history of Being is made up of incidents, things that befall, but they are not “accidents” that can be dismissed with a wave of the hand: they are events. Truth, with its history, is one of these events, and it is difficult to imagine getting rid of it.
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In other words, the proposition “truth does not exist” is patently meant to be a descriptive, objective truth and therefore it is patently contradictory to utter it – never mind that truth does not properly “exist” or “not exist,” but is, if anything, assertible or not assertible. What does exist is a common language in which these effects of contradiction emerge, and to take that into account is what’s important. Thus it is possible for me to affirm that truth dies like God dies. And just as the death (and birth) of God in Christianity is an aspect of God, forms part of his nature, likewise this contradictory death of truth belongs to the nature of truth.
The discourse becomes completely different. There is history, the meaning of which I must understand: I must account for why it is that today the term “truth” is used differently, and why it is in a certain sense true that “we no longer possess the truth.” The history of Being is made up of incidents, things that befall, but they are not “accidents” that can be dismissed with a wave of the hand: they are events. Truth, with its history, is one of these events, and it is difficult to imagine getting rid of it.
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