“The Truthful Presentation of Error Is an Indirect Presentation of Truth”: The Relationship between Truth and Error in the Works of Several Major Authors of Modernity and Postmodernity Cover Image

„A tévedés igaz ábrázolása az igazság indirekt ábrázolása.” Igazság és tévedés a modernitás és posztmodernitás néhány kurrens szerzőjénél
“The Truthful Presentation of Error Is an Indirect Presentation of Truth”: The Relationship between Truth and Error in the Works of Several Major Authors of Modernity and Postmodernity

Author(s): Tamás Valastyán
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: truth; error; worldview; metaphor; contingency

Summary/Abstract: In this study, I examine certain characteristic philosophical attitudes of modernity and postmodernity in light of the relationship between truth and error. Selected reflections by Novalis, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Mihály Vajda guide the argument of the text. While in Novalis’s work the relation to truth is most succinctly defined by inversion, in Nietzsche’s we encounter metaphorical activity, and in Mihály Vajda’s, the event of contingency comes to the fore. In all three cases, this framework discloses a distinctive worldview that does not solidify into ideology, but rather ensures the vitality of their thinking.

  • Issue Year: 2026
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 23-30
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Hungarian
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