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Classicism's first principle decreed that only the representation of ideal forms could give art universal authority, while Rembrandt, these critics asserted, believed the opposite: that only a shockingly unedited version of natural truth could serve art's highest purpose.
The latter notion represents an original, natural truth in the sense of the basic recognition of the most profound structure of existence.
In part due to a natural "truth bias," humans (including those with special training) can generally detect deception at a rate only slightly better than chance, at around 54% [1],[2].
Aquinas assumes, like Boethius and in contrast to Abelard, that the idea of natural truth or falsity of all temporally definite propositions implies that everything happens of necessity (In Periherm. I.13, 173).
For a conjunction, ((A⇒B &(C⇒D)), the most natural truth table would seem to be: the conjunction is true iff both conjuncts are true; false iff at least one conjunct is false; otherwise it lacks a truth value.
If it can be demonstrated that Scripture is not a source of "natural truth", but the bearer of only a simple moral message ("Love your neighbor"), then people will see that "faith is something separate from philosophy".
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Science is a heroic attempt to give expression to impersonal natural truths, and by some reckonings it is the most successful enterprise in history.
At the turn of the 14th century, however, Dante's powerful poetical vision could still merge the Averroists' Aristotle, who claimed that natural truths were self-sufficient, and Aquinas's Aristotle, who endorsed many of the truths of faith.
This view-according to which there are perfectly objective, universal, moral and other normative truths that are not in any way reducible to other, natural truths-is familiar, but this book is the first in-detail development of the positive motivations for the view into reasonably precise arguments.
Metaphors also present natural truths using language that allows understanding by non-specialists.
However, not only are humans wired with distinctive desires, our brains are natural truth-tellers, which is why denial and duplicity are often short-lived.
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