Arne Ness (Naess) (1912-2009) shows with careful questioning of
people who are not professional philosophers that there is no
single common notion of truth, and indeed the variety of views that
philosophers hold on truth are held by more or less equal
proportions of those he interviews. "Non-philosophers have no
theory of truth, no general opinion on the notion of truth, neither
explicit nor implicit, which distinguishes them-as a group-from
philosophers." p. 159 "The misconception that non-philosophers
adhere-explicitly or implicitly-to a definite type of opinion on
the notion of truth is primarily due to an ignorance of the extreme
diversity of opinion found among non-philosophers as soon as they
are invited to speak about the notion of truth. Secondarily, the
misconception is due to belief in intuitively obtained information
as to the "essence" of the philosophic attitude towards things in
general. The attitude of non-philosophers towards the notion of
truth has been deduced from alleged knowledge of their character
and ideology. A deduction of this kind is meaningless and
impossible, even if such knowledge should be available." p. 160 The
Advanced Reasoning Forum is pleased to make available in its
Classic Reprints series this exact reproduction of the 1938 text.
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