What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For 'truth' itself is an abstract noun, a camel, that is, of a logical construction, which cannot get past the eye even of a grammarian. We approach it cap and categories in hand: we ask ourselves whether Truth is a substanceor a qualityor a relation. . . . But philosophers should take something more nearly their own size to strain at. What needs discussing rather is the use, or certain uses, of the word 'true. ' In vino, possibly, 'veritas,' but in a sober symposium 'verum.
I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.