Abstract

Awareness of the limit of language cannot be taken as absolute truth, but as an expression of the conditioning exercised by truth: it is by virtue of absolute truth that this awareness can take place. This conditioning exercised by absolute truth is expressed in the intentio veritatis, which does not intend to maintain itself separated from truth, but intends to sublate itself in truth in order to be one with it. In this way, it seems to us that we can avoid the twofold error represented by the relativist conception and the dogmatic conception. The first claims to deny absolute truth, affirming only relative truths. The second assumes as absolute truth a truth, which instead is only relative precisely because it is determined. Against these two conceptions stands intentionalism, which affirms the undeniability of absolute truth, but which, for this very reason, does not claim to determine it.