strategy

Searching for truth

Synonyms:
Seeking truth
Journeying in search of truth
Claim:

There is therefore a path which the human being may choose to take, a path which begins with reason's capacity to rise beyond what is contingent and set out towards the infinite. In different ways and at different times, men and women have shown that they can articulate this intimate desire of theirs. Through literature, music, painting, sculpture, architecture and every other work of their creative intelligence they have declared the urgency of their quest. In a special way philosophy has made this search its own and, with its specific tools and scholarly methods, has articulated this universal human desire. It is rightly claimed that persons have reached adulthood when they can distinguish independently between truth and falsehood, making up their own minds about the objective reality of things. This is what has driven so many enquiries, especially in the scientific field, which in recent centuries have produced important results, leading to genuine progress for all humanity. (Papal Encyclical, Fides et Ratio, 14 September 1998).

 

 

Counter Claim:

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as nothing happened. (Winston Churchill).

 

 

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Type Classification:
F: Exceptional strategies