WHO KILLED PAULINA LEBBOS? A PEARCE ANALYSIS ON RESEARCH AND TRUTH

Abstract

One of the most debated issues throughout the twentieth century is the one that concerns us today, the question of truth. So much so that this century witnessed both the emergence of novel conceptions of truth and a growing devaluation of that notion. It is certainly one of the central notions that philosophical reflection deals with. Since Aristotle, who considered philosophy as the theoretical science of truth, the truth remained for centuries in its seat of supreme object of philosophy and science. We can not ignore that this reign was disturbed, here and there, by one or another skeptical assault, but, on the whole, the great conviction that always crossed the history of philosophy was that truth was the supreme good of research.