John Findlay Quotes on Truth
John Niemeyer Findlay was a South African-born philosopher whose long career took him from Pretoria and Otago to Newcastle, King's College London, the University of Texas, Yale, and Boston University. This page collects quotes attributed to John Findlay on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to John Findlay:
“The ontological argument, properly understood, may be a disproof rather than a proof.”
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Attributed to John Findlay:
“Values are objective, but inseparable from acts of valuing.”
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Attributed to John Findlay:
“Hegel is the philosopher of mediation, not of mystification.”
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Attributed to John Findlay:
“Plato's forms remain the most living of philosophical hypotheses.”
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Attributed to John Findlay:
“The mind is essentially intentional; thoughts are about something.”