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De Veritate

Disciplines:
theology
epistemology

Summary

Anselm of Canterbury's dialogue on truth — arguing that truth is a rightness perceptible only to the mind, and that all truth participates in the supreme Truth that is God.

Core Contribution

Truth is rightness — a statement is true when it does what it ought (signifies what is); God is supreme Truth from which all particular truths depend. Distinguishes multiple senses of truth (propositional, practical, ontological).

Historical Influences

Anselm of Canterbury

Intellectual Lineage

No conceptual lineage found.

Allied Works

Proslogion De Libertate De Casu Diaboli

Contemporaries & Peers

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Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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