The chief fallacy is to believe that Truth is a result which comes at the end of a thought-process. Truth, on the contrary, is always the beginning of thought; thinking is always result-less. That is the difference between ‘philosophy’ and science: Science has results, philosophy never. Thinking starts after an experience of truth has struck home, so to speak. The difference between philosophers and other people is that the former refuse to let go, but not that they are the only receptacles of truth. This notion that truth is the result of thought is very old and goes back to ancient classical philosophy, possibly to Socrates himself. If I am right and it is a fallacy, then it probably is the oldest fallacy of Western philosophy. You can detect it in almost all definitions of truth.... Truth, in other words, is not ‘in’ thought, but to use Kant’s language, the condition for the possibility of thinking. It is both, beginning and a priori.
—Hannah Arendt, letter to Mary McCarthy, Aug. 20, 1954 in Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975, p 25
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