They say that the idea of objectivity, the idea that science aims at and sometimes attains the truth about how things are, is incoherent -- a foolish bauble left over from the babyhood of thought.
25:5 as teaching that man needs divine help in order to attain the truth (Iggeret ha-Halom, 488); or simply taking Ps.
But there are also philosophically deeper motives: (2) He takes over from the precritical Kant an idea (inspired by ancient skepticism) that the best way for the philosopher to pursue the truth is by setting contrary views on a subject into opposition with one another in order to advance towards, and hopefully attain, the truth through their mutual testing and modification.
The idea of a bird or any other animal manufacturing dietary supplements or isolating a particular nutrient is surely absurd: Human beings have used reason and technology to attain the truth in this matter, which is transmitted via communications networks of which we can be rightly proud.
The other two parts of Aristotle's logic dealt with the problems of how to reach scientific and dialectical conclusions respectively: the Analytics is about finding correct axioms and using them to acquire scientific knowledge; the Topics teaches us how to discuss and treat those issues where it is impossible to attain the truth, so that we have to be satisfied with seeking what is most probable.
Its teaching emphasizes the use of one's own wisdom to attain the objective truth of nature and completely eliminate the origin of mental distress so that the mind can be released once and for all from suffering.
In other words, the putative truths of quotidian life are actually delusions that, if believed, prevent one from attaining the wisdom that is capable of leading to the imperturbable peace of nirvana.
Following on general Neoplatonic intuitions, this means that when one has attained the heights of truth and goodness, one will have reverted to one's truest life, a pure state of soul which transcends mortal life we might describe it as a kind of immortality while in the mortal body.
The highest human intellect has little ability to attain this truth directly, and so we cannot rely on intellectual teachers as guides to that truth.
(3) Also, he develops a more original variant of that idea on the socio-historical plane: analogously, the way for humankind as a whole to attain the elusive goal of truth is through an ongoing contest between opposing positions, in the course of which the best ones will eventually win out (this idea anticipates, and inspired, a central thesis of J.S. Mill's On Liberty).
