I do believe that it is possible to aim for truth".
While Mr. Clapton's singing had a relatively new, pleasing roughness, he aimed for truth as always through his guitar.
One objection to the foregoing is that pragmatic arguments are, by and large, pointless because beliefs are, by their very nature, psychological states that aim for truth.
So aiming for truth, as opposed to warrant, does not point to a possible line of action, just as we have no measure of our approximation to truth other than increasing warrant.
A person ordinarily cannot believe a proposition that she takes to have a probability of less than one-half or whose probability is uncertain since such propositional attitudes do not aim for truth.
"I think that reality exists and that it's knowable," he says, adding that Wikipedia aims not for truth with a capital T but for consensus.
Over time there must have been billions of self-portraits, given that even the least of us have tried it, and what connects them all is this aim for the truth, for getting something across of one's self.
The foreword to Alceste, signed but perhaps not wholly authored by the composer, stands as a manifesto of operatic reform, aiming for "simplicity, truth and naturalness" in plot, language, and musical declamation and form, specifically rejecting the elaborate conventions of Metastasian opera seria.
They must aim for the truth.
