{"id":514516,"date":"2022-12-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=514516"},"modified":"2023-03-12T16:46:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T15:46:52","slug":"there-can-be-no-lie-if-there-is-no-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/philosophy\/there-can-be-no-lie-if-there-is-no-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"There can be no lie if there is no truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">It may sound like a trite phrase, like \u00abthere's no heat without cold\u00bb, but remembering that there's no lie without truth has the merit of bringing back to the table a fact that has become too old-fashioned in certain intellectual spheres: truth exists. A statement that would make almost any sociologist of the moment leap to his or her feet, but one that is nonetheless true. <em>real<\/em>. Ah, the word is out! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more LIRE LA SUITE DE L\u2019\u00c9DITO (EN LIBRE ACC\u00c8S)-->\n\n\n\n<p>If truth didn't exist, it wouldn't even be true that truth didn't exist. So it would be both true and false that truth doesn't exist. Here's the problem: such an idea violates the logical principle of non-contradiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without truth, there would be no falsity either. Indeed, it would never be true that something is false, as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Richard Glauser pointed out in his farewell lecture at the University of Neuch\u00e2tel in 2018. So, no more mistakes. No more police or journalistic investigations. Nor, you guessed it, lies. Our monthly feature would be pointless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Without truth, there is no belief or knowledge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And there's more: without truth, not only could we no longer know anything false, we could no longer know anything... at all. This is for the simple reason that to know something is to know that it is true. <em>is true<\/em>. It wouldn't even be possible to believe in something or assume anything, since that would be believing or assuming that thing to be true. Ouch! As it happens, we spend a significant part of our time - cerebrally - believing that this or that. Or wondering whether something is <em>real<\/em> or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/newsletter.infomaniak.com\/external\/submit\" class=\"inf-form\" target=\"_blank\"><input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" style=\"display:none\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"key\" value=\"eyJpdiI6IlZXRVJGMlRGQUU2alNqUE81bitIUk5adnNVa0c4MllFTStzOHdHT1FQZ3c9IiwidmFsdWUiOiJIYzhwMUVCK1pTNnlhY3MyMmhuZlhReWJqemEwNk93blMxTjFHc0s2VHZrPSIsIm1hYyI6ImVhYTQ5N2I1M2NiYWE4NzBm Njk2NzgzYjliM2Y5NmYzM2E2ZmU3NGQxNTU1ZDFkMTU1MzY5NTdjYjE3ZTJmNTUifQ==\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"webform_id\" value=\"7291\"><style> .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff{ background-color:#f5f5f5; padding:25px 20px; margin:25px auto; } .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-content { margin-top:13px;} .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff h4, .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff span, .inf- main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff label, .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff input, .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-submit, .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-success p a { color:#555555; font-size:14px; } .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff h4{ font-size:18px; margin:0px 0px 13px 0px; } .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff h4, .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff label{ font-weight:bold; } .inf- main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-input { margin-bottom:7px; } .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff label { display:block;} .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff input{ height:35px; color:#999999; border: 1px solid #E9E9E9; border:none; padding-left:7px; } .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-input.inf-error label, .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-input.inf-error span.inf-message{ color: #cc0033; } .inf- main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-input.inf-error input{ border: 1px solid #cc0033; } .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-input input { width:100%;} .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-input.inf-error span.inf-message { display: block; } .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-submit { text-align:right;} .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-submit input{ background-color:#777777; color:#ffffff; border:none; font-weight: normal; height:auto; padding:7px; } .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-submit input.disabled{ opacity: 0.4; } .inf-btn { color: rgb(85, 85, 85); border: medium none; font-weight: normal; height: auto; padding: 7px; display: inline- block; background-color: white; box-shadow: 0px 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.24); border-radius: 2px; line-height: 1em; } .inf-rgpd { margin:25px 0px 15px 0px; color:#555555; } <\/style> <div class=\"inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff\"> <h4>NEWSLETTER DU REGARD LIBRE<\/h4> <span>Receive our articles every Sunday.<\/span> <div class=\"inf-success\" style=\"display:none\"> <h4>Your subscription to our weekly newsletter has been successfully registered!<\/h4> <p> <a href=\"#\" class=\"inf-btn\">\u00ab<\/a> <\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"inf-content\"> <div class=\"inf-input inf-input-text\"> <input type=\"text\" name=\"inf[1]\" data-inf-meta=\"1\" data-inf-error=\"Merci de renseigner une adresse email\" required=\"required\" placeholder=\"Email\"> <\/div> <div class=\"inf-submit\"> <input type=\"submit\" name=\"\" value=\"Sign up\"> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/form>\n\n\n\n<p>Without truth, there's no science either. Not because science produces knowledge, but more precisely because this knowledge <a href=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/sciences\/validite-ou-credibilite-en-sciences-humaines\/\">is defined by refutability<\/a>We have to be able to refute a thesis for it to be scientific. That's how knowledge advances. It's absurd, then, to hear academics - some of them from disciplines that are supposed to be \"scientific\" - refute a thesis. <em>sciences<\/em>, The last thing we need is for him to declare, with an air no doubt intended to be witty, that \u00abin any case, there is no truth\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">There would be \u00abtruths\u00bb. What does that mean?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, if you give them the kind of simple arguments we've just enumerated, they might reply that what they meant was that there is no <em>a<\/em> truth, but <em>several<\/em> truths. So one of two things: either there are several truths in the sense that more than one thing is true, or there are several truths in the sense that one thing could be true for one individual and false for another. In the first case, we won't have learned anything special: yes, there are several things that are true, truth being a property of many sentences, theses, ideas, statements... In the second case, we'll have to remember, with Aristotle, that a thing cannot be both true and false at the same time and in the same respect. Example: the rate at which <em>Regard Libre<\/em> is slow compared to a daily, but fast compared to a biannual. But to say that <em>Regard Libre<\/em> is both slow and fast \u00abin the absolute\u00bb is to contradict oneself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read also | <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/editorials\/the-strengths-of-a-monthly-magazine\/\"><strong>The strengths of a monthly magazine<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beware, then, of playing clever by snubbing the notion of truth: let's have the humility to recognize its basic importance in all mental activity. This does not mean that it is always easy to determine what is true and what is false. Skepticism is perhaps the second humility to have. Always be curious and critical. By the way, happy reading!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Write to the author:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:jonas.follonier@leregardlibre.com\">jonas.follonier@leregardlibre.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You've just read an open-access editorial.<\/strong>&nbsp;Debates, analysis, cultural news:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/subscription\/\">subscribe<\/a>&nbsp;to support us and get access to all our content!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image: \u00a9 Drawing by Nathana\u00ebl Schmid for <em>Le Regard Libre<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may sound like a trite phrase, like \u00abthere's no such thing as hot without cold\u00bb, but remembering that there's no such thing as a lie without the truth has the merit of bringing back to the table a fact that has become too old-fashioned in certain intellectual circles: truth exists.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11566],"tags":[644358146,644357659,1048873,2102107,644358147,644358199,409921],"class_list":["post-514516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophie","tag-dossier-mensonge","tag-editoriaux","tag-mensonge","tag-relativisme","tag-science","tag-sciences-sociales","tag-verite"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Il ne peut y avoir de mensonge s\u2019il n\u2019y a pas de v\u00e9rit\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rappeler qu\u2019il n\u2019y a pas de mensonge sans v\u00e9rit\u00e9 a le m\u00e9rite de ramener sur la table un fait trop ringardis\u00e9. 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