And such was the unbearable truth of soul error for Rousseau that he suggested the only world worth living in was the realm of fiction.
In a café, she falls into conversation with a philosopher (the actual philosopher Brice Parain), who urges on her the value of experience, of seeking truth through error, of going through periods of detachment before speaking.
But in fact what the error theorist decides to do with the erroneous moral language is a matter logically independent of the truth of the moral error theory.
Moore agrees with Land on most theological matters: both believe, as all Southern Baptists are supposed to, that the Bible contains "truth, without any mixture of error".
Philosophical tradition in particular provides an object lesson in the movement towards truth, and the elimination of error.
Especially crucial was the way that it allowed Voltaire's outlaw status, which he had never fully repudiated, to be rehabilitated in the public mind as a necessary and heroic defense of philosophical truth against the enemies of error and prejudice.
'The Duty of the public authority is to arm the full force of truth against error, which is always a public evil.
In January 1883 he arrived at an insight that proved fundamental to his philosophy: in order for our ordinary concepts of truth and error to be meaningful, there must be an Absolute Knower, an actual infinite mind that encompasses the totality of all actual truths and possible errors.
For Samkhya, in general, error is partial truth; there is no negation of error, only supplementation, though later Samkhya authors tended to ascribe error to wrong interpretation.
Not, the authors think, if we abandon a Cartesian "ethos" of error-avoidance in favor of a Jamesian "counterethos," where "the pursuit of truth" trumps the "strict avoidance of error".
