Word, Knowledge and Truth/Jacques Maritain/ July 21, 2010.....and....time:)

Jacques Maritain /An Introduction to Philosophy/ Sheed & Ward/1947

What is the truth of knowledge, and is it possible to refute those who question the veracity of our organs of knowledge, particularly of the intellect or reason? This clearly is the double question which arises at the outset. The answer, however, is sufficiently plain.

As to the first question, there is no difficulty in understanding what is meant by the notion of TRUTH. What is a true or truthful word? A Word expresses, as it really is, the speaker's thought;

a word in conformity with that thought.


Place, Space and Time//Margith A. Strand/ Distance Ed.

p. 425/ A History of Philosophy/ E. Gilson

The Concepts of the Understanding

Kant explains that this determination of place is not derived from the relation of phenomena to absolute time., which cannot be an object of perception, but rather that the phenomena must reciprocally determine the places in time of one another, and render these necessary in order of time.




The three-dimensionality of space is a determination, a whatness, a content, of an abstract something in which all the objects of our experience participate;....]


A History of Philosophy: Modern Philosophy E. Gilson, Ed.(1968)