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Donald Davidson Quotes on Truth

Donald Davidson was an American philosopher whose work in the philosophy of action, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind shaped late twentieth-century analytic thought. This page collects quotes attributed to Donald Davidson on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Donald Davidson:

    “Reasons are causes.”

  • Attributed to Donald Davidson:

    “There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed.”

  • Attributed to Donald Davidson:

    “Belief is by nature veridical.”

  • Attributed to Donald Davidson:

    “Charity is forced upon us; whether we like it or not, if we want to understand others, we must count them right in most matters.”