The phrase "attaining truth" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in contexts discussing the pursuit of knowledge, understanding, or enlightenment.
Example: "Philosophers have long debated the methods of attaining truth in their inquiries."
Alternatives: "seeking truth" or "achieving truth".
In most pre-modern cultures, there were two recognised ways of attaining truth.
Once more, a global cartographic motif (flags and nations) joins one of death (dust and mortality); and, just as Queequeg's tattoo-map is also a synecdoche for knowledge in its entirety — it is, Melville informs us, 'a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth' — so this man's dusty action, the purveying of lexicons and dictionaries, stands in for the bearing of all archives, of all books.
The relative merits of the senses, reason and faith for attaining truth and the guidance of life were a significant issue during this period.
The perceptible ones were objects of perception, which was capable of attaining truth about them but nothing that counted as knowledge; they were within the heavens.
The name Kuan-Shu, which means "observing trees" in Chinese, refers to Buddhist scripture about attaining truth while immersed in the peacefulness of nature.
In the ninth chapter of his philosophical masterpiece Remarks and Treatments (al-Ishārāt wa'l-tanbihāt), in a section entitled On the Stations of Knowers (Fī maqāmāt al-'ārifin), Aviccena offers an explanation of the Sufi doctrine and openly defends the gnostic and Sufi method of attaining truth.
For example, Miranda Fricker argues that there is social pressure to grant greater than warranted degrees of credibility to those with social power, with the effect that we do less well at attaining truths and avoiding falsehoods.
In practical thinking (praktikê dianoia) we attain truth and falsity with respect to action.
It must be the mind, then, with which we attain truth, and that truth must be something beyond the sensible world.
For the new thinking suggests that one does not attain truth by stepping out of the river of time, but rather that truth is that which "unfolds in time".
Perception had earlier been dismissed as not being in a position even to attain truth (186e), much less being capable of falsehood; but little is said about how perceptual content should be understood.
