Patrice Ayme
Jul 30, 2017 · 2 min read

All We Need Is Truth

People are simple. And love to be simple. That’s why, aside from their profession, all they know is “sports”. Being complicated is expensive.

Rationality exists, but as I have emphasized in the past, as a constant rolling of the drums, a logic can be anything.

Beatles sang: “All You Need Is Love!”. Silly stuff: we all got love, otherwise we won’t exist. We have all the logics, at our disposal, and all the love we got as children.

To order and discipline our logic, and even our loves, all we need is truth.

“Postmodernism” was the realization that many ideologies were the fruit of tribalism, not truth (as they malevolently claimed). This is not really new. See “vérité en deçà des Pyrénées, erreur au-delà” of Pascal (a thought unpublished in his lifetime: truth before the Pyrénées, error beyond them)..

“Deconstruction” consisted in finding out where things came from. It’s not conceptually different from analysis (an unloosening), a concept found in Aristotle, and obvious centuries before him.

All this is to say that those who have pretended to introduce new ways of thinking about thinking have eschewed the truth: there is no truth, but truth, and, in the human species, truth is as old as dinner . There is no truth, but truth! In the human species, that’s as old as dinner. The truth was in the dinner. In how to get dinner!

There is no logic without a metalogic, establishing therein, a notion of truth. Thinking is, and always was, an experimental process.

All we need is truth. But it’s the hardest thing. Truth never was, nor will ever be, a safe place. But it’s the safest place.

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    Philosophy. No Holds Barred. No clout left unturned. Extracting possible truth from primal facts, in history and science, rather than from literary gossip.