The edifying philosophers are thus agreeing with Lessing’s choice of the infinite striving for truth over “all of Truth.”20 For the edifying philosopher the very idea of being presented with “all of Truth” is absurd, because the Platonic notion of Truth itself is absurd. It is absurd either as the notion of truth about reality which is not about reality-under-a-certain-description, or as the notion of truth about reality under some privileged description which makes all other descriptions unnecessary because it is commensurable with each of them.
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