Santayana’s theory of truth: Moving from logic to realism

Said Aly Ebead ,Sabrin Zaghloul ,Nizar Smida ,Bassem Jemal

doi:10.24294/jipd10035

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Santayana’s theory of truth: Moving from logic to realism

Said Aly Ebead

Sabrin Zaghloul

Nizar Smida

Bassem Jemal

Journal of Infrastructure Policy and Development 2024, 8(15); https://doi.org/10.24294/jipd10035

Submitted：01 Nov 2024

Accepted：04 Nov 2024

Published：13 Dec 2024

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Abstract

What is “truth”? This is the main philosophical question that many of the contemporary philosophical theories (e.g., consistency theory, correspondence theory, semiotics, and pragmatism) tried to investigate over the past decades. However, these theories mostly approached “truth” from logical and epistemological perspectives. On the other hand, Santayana’s theory of truth embarks in a different direction. His perspective was laid out in his book “The Realm of Truth”, which is considered one of the parts of his seminal work “The Realms of Being”. Santayana's theory of truth founded on the “critical realism” to which he belongs, and thus his approach was “realistic” or “ontological”. The novelty of Santayana's theory of truth is that it brings the “theory of truth” out of the fields of logic, epistemology, and philosophies of language, and into the field of being, ontology, or the realm of lived experience. In this paper we introduce an analytical and critical account of Santayana's theory of truth, and its moving from logic to realism.

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