The Experience of Truth

What does it mean to say that something is true? In this book Gaetano Chiurazzi argues that when we say that something is true, we do not say something merely about a state of affairs, but also about ourselves. Truth is not just the fact of "what is out there," but a mode of existence that shapes and transforms human understanding. Supported by an original reading of Aristotle's theory of judgment and Heidegger's hermeneutical theory of truth, Chiurazzi also engages the work of Nietzsche, Gadamer, Putnam, and Rorty to challenge the rising tide of theories that dismiss the importance of human experience to the idea of truth. Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Before Judgment Judgment and Truth Hypárchein En Tiní: Ontological Antecedence Hypárchein Tiní: The Essential Antecedence The Inesse: From Boethius to Leibniz The Presupposition of Truth Chapter 2 Verbum Consignificat Tempus The Nominal Phrase: The Presence and the Absence of the Copula The Elimination of the Copula: Truth without Time Signifying the Non-objectual: Synthesis and Time The Speculative Proposition: The Time of Knowing From Time to Consignificatio Existentiae Chapter 3 The Experience of Truth as the Experience of Time The Form of Truth: Deixis and the Elliptical Character of Judgment Correspondence and Metaphysics Beyond Parmenides: Excess as Future and Anticipation The Ontological Background of Alétheia: Ontology of the Possible Chapter 4 Truth and Transformation Truth Changes The Pragmatization of Hermeneutics The Hermeneuticization of Pragmatism The Truth of Experience: The Myth of the Cave The “Anticonformist” Character of Truth Chapter 5 More Than the Real The Extra-Methodicalness of Truth as the Objectivity of Happening The Abstraction of the Experimental Consciousness and the Temporality of Presentation Truth as Transmutation into Form Formation as Elevation to an Intensional Universality Chapter 6 The Sense of Truth Force and Interpretation An Experimental Ontology For Whom Is Truth? Chapter 7 A Non-alienated Conception of Truth The Form of Truth: Truth and Experiential Realism Against the Equivalence-Thesis Beyond Domination: Truth as Countervailing Power Notes and Bibliography Index