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The opposite of truth

Friday, September 19, 2008
The logical value of signification or demonstration thus understood is no longer the truth [...], but rather the condition of truth, the aggregate of conditions under which the proposition "would be" true. The conditioned or concluded proposition may be false, insofar as it actually denotes a nonexisting state of affairs or is not directly verified. Signification does not establish the truth without also establishing the possibility of error. For this reason, the condition of truth is not opposed to the false, but to the absurd: that which is without signification or that which may be neither true nor false.

Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense (Continuum: London, 2003), p. 18.

 

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