Can works of art other than literature possess truth to human nature?
I have an advantage now: I can laugh off truthless loves, and strike down duplicitous couples with shame... and now I'll be able to possess truth in a single body and soul".
Indeed, sentence types as such don't express propositions or possess truth conditions at all.
Thus, the argument concludes, even if the non-cognitivist account of the use of moral terms were correct, they would still possess truth conditions with contents characterizing the non-cognitive attitudes of the speaker making the utterance (Jackson and Pettit 1998).
Preoccupied with existence--immediate, direct, and primal--Existentialism seeks to erase all trace of the tyrannical notion of essence--that is, absolute, distinct, and unalterable identity, the kind that so often insisted it possessed the truth, like no other.
The disciples, Pope Francis explains, "were a little intolerant," closed off by the idea of possessing the truth, convinced that "those who do not have the truth, cannot do good".
He contemplates a future in which he can "possess the truth in a soul and a body".
They are untroubled by doubt or concern for the good opinion of others since they already possess absolute truth.
He even chides Jesus's very disciples for being "a little intolerant" and for being (though here the Vatican radio reporter is paraphrasing) "closed off by the idea of possessing the truth".
He seems to be one of those people who believes he possesses absolute truth, who wants to impose his thoughts on everybody else and exercise total dominance over others like some World Historical superman.
