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Guillermo Hurtado, Biografía de la Verdad, Siglo XXI, 2024, 142pp., $280.00 Mexican pesos (hbk), ISBN 9786070314186.
Reviewed by Axel Arturo Barceló Aspeitia, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM
The concept of truth has consistently occupied a central place in our philosophical reflection, as it serves as a vital bridge between ourselves and the world around us. It is a commonsense truism that what is true hinges on how things actually are. As Aristotle famously articulated it in book Gamma of his Metaphysics––“truth is to say of what is that it is and of what is not that it is not” (1011b27). Yet, to understand truth solely in this manner neglects another equally essential condition for its existence: truths require articulation. For something to be true, it must first exist, and the things we usually call ‘true’, namely sentences, are human creations. Therefore, unless one subscribes to a Platonist view of truth-bearers, for there…
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