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(1974) Beyond epistemology, Dordrecht, Springer.
To the question "what is truth?" Hegel replies (with Socrates and Aristotle and most other systematic thinkers of the West) that it is a ratio. He holds that it is not simple but composed, and that, in the pursuit of knowledge, it comes not among the first things, but among the last. More precisely: truth for Hegel is neither a subjective idea in itself nor an objective thing in itself, neither a universal abstractly conceived nor a particular empirically apprehended, but an adequate linking-together in reason (ratio) of thought and thing, universal and particular.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-2016-9_4
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Paolucci, H. (1974)., Truth in the philosophical sciences of society, politics, and history, in F. Weiss (ed.), Beyond epistemology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 98-128.
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