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|Description = To strive this hard for a conclusion implies a belief in an immutable truth, discoverable through debate and logic. But what does one even mean by truth?
 
|Description = To strive this hard for a conclusion implies a belief in an immutable truth, discoverable through debate and logic. But what does one even mean by truth?
 
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|Success title = Redirected debate
 
|Success title = Redirected debate
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[…] The […] conversation moves swiftly from the correspondence theory of truth to a fierce argument about perception – and whether truth is a thing that can be perceived at all. […] a large spider has a leg pulled clean away. […]
 
[…] The […] conversation moves swiftly from the correspondence theory of truth to a fierce argument about perception – and whether truth is a thing that can be perceived at all. […] a large spider has a leg pulled clean away. […]
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|Failure title = Brought back into order
 
|Failure title = Brought back into order
|Failure description = The Symposium bursts into discussion […]
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|Failure description = The Symposium bursts into discussion[…]
  
[…] This is a mere digression, proposed out of desperation by a 'scholar' with nothing legitimate to add to the discussion at hand. […] we accept that truth is that which ascribes to those things corresponding to reality […]
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[…]This is a mere digression, proposed out of desperation by a 'scholar' with nothing legitimate to add to the discussion at hand. […]we accept that truth is that which ascribes to those things corresponding to reality[…]
 
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