Exhausting Book

I’m reading a collection of philosophical essays that drains me on energy and severely affect my ability to think of anything else. The blog suffers as my mind is occupied with the question of truth. What is truth? How do we know what is the truth? Is correspondence to facts a criterion for truth, or is coherence enough? And what about consensus as a requirement for truth? With increasing fascination, I find myself attracted to the coherence theory, which Harold Joachim defines as, “Truth in its essential nature is that systematic coherence which is the character of a significant whole.”

Quotation from H. H. Joachim, The Nature of Truth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), 76.