The Experience of Truth

Gaetano Chiurazzi is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy. Robert T. Valgenti is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Lebanon Valley College.

Introduction

1. Before Judgment
Judgment and Truth
Hyparchein en tini: Ontological Antecedence
Hyparchein tini: The Essential Antecedence
The Inesse: From Boethius to Leibniz
The Presupposition of Truth

2. Verbum Consignificat Tempus
The Nominal Phrase: The Presence and the Absence of the Copula
The Elimination of the Copula: Truth without Time
Signifying the Non-objectual: Synthesis and Time
The Speculative Proposition: The Time of Knowing
From Time to Consignificatio Existentiae

3. The Experience of Truth as the Experience of Time
The Form of Truth: Deixis and the Elliptical Character of Judgment
Correspondence and Metaphysics
Beyond Parmenides: Excess as Future and Anticipation
The Ontological Background of Aletheia: Ontology of the Possible

4. Truth and Transformation
Truth Changes
The Pragmatization of Hermeneutics
The Hermeneuticization of Pragmatism
The Truth of Experience: The Myth of the Cave
The “Anticonformist” Character of Truth

5. More Than the Real
The Extra-Methodicalness of Truth as the Objectivity of Happening
The Abstraction of the Experimental Consciousness and the Temporality of Presentation
Truth as Transmutation into Form
Formation as Elevation to an Intensional Universality

6. The Sense of Truth
Force and Interpretation
An Experimental Ontology
For Whom Is Truth?

7. A Non-alienated Conception of Truth
The Form of Truth: Truth and Experiential Realism
Against the Equivalence-Thesis
Beyond Domination: Truth as Countervailing Power

Notes and Bibliography
Index