too filled with the promise of certainty
and we are rightly suspicious of it.
But truth will not go away that easily.
The statement that
'there is no such thing as truth'
is itself a truth statement,
is itself a truth statement,
and implies that it is truer than its opposite,
the statement that 'truth exists'.
If we had no concept of truth,
we could not state anything at all,
and it would even be pointless to act.
There would be no purpose, for example,
in seeking the advice of doctors,
since there would be no point
in having their opinion,
and no basis for their view that
one treatment was better than another.
None of us actually lives as though
there were no truth.
Our problem is more with the notion
of a single, unchanging truth.'
Taken from The Master & His Emissary
by Iain McGilchrist.
Published by Yale University Press 2010.
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