Do you know any of the great philosophers who have been able to claim truth?

Answer 1

William James used this simple and old-fashioned test. Truth had been conceived as an objective relation, as once good and beauty had been. Natural laws had been taken as objective truths, eteranl and unchangeable.

Spinoza had made them the very substance of his philosophy. And yet what were these truths but formulations of experience, convenient and successful in practice; not copies of an object, but correct calculations of specific consequences. Truth is the cash value of an idea.

The true... is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as the right is only expedient in the way of our behaving. Expedient is almost any fashion. And expedient in the long run and on the whole of course; for what meets expediently all experiences in sight won't necessarily meet all further experiences equally satisfactorily...Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and coordinate with it. The true i the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief.

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Answer 2

there aren't any. no great philosopher has been "able to claim truth". in fact, i really am uncertain what you are searching for in your question. are you asking for names of philosophers that have defined truth? or philosophers that claim to be able to demonstrate what's true? or to know truth? they may be searching for the 'truth', or what is true; but any great philosopher would be reasonable enough to know he or she won't know the truth absolutely.
there's a problem defining what truth is for a start.

a lot of religious people claim to be able to claim truth; or rather claim they know the truth. religious views are philosophies.
but these people aren't necessarily great or even good philosophers; rather they are probably good at preaching.

Answer 3

Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prbhupada, Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Maharaj, Srila Gour Govinda, Srila Bhaktivenoda Thakura, Srila Bhaktisidanta Saravasti.

Answer 4

Any philosopher who did not claim there is no truth, claimed there is truth. Kant put an ugly twist on it when he claimed the truth was in "noumena," but that man did not have the power to know the truth of noumena. How is that for putting truth outside of our powers of reason?

Answer 5

All great philosophers have first and foremost recognized that in the true sense of reality they know absolutely nothing at all- I don't think any great philosopher has claimed they know the truth.

If they do, then they are not great at all

Answer 6

Ayn Rand. And she proves it.

Answer 7

mahatma gandhi