There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
The words of truth are simple.
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.
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