Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (external link)“There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.”
— Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues
Foucault’s critique of power and knowledge shaped poststructuralism, yet its rejection of truth risks becoming its own orthodoxy. To remain...
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philosophybits: “There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that...
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