"Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond"
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
About this Quote
In this quote, Hegel is going over the idea of fact in philosophy. He states that for something to be considered true, the concepts or concepts that we have about it must refer the external truth or actual presence of that thing. In other words, our understanding of something must line up with how that thing actually remains in the world. This concept is very important in viewpoint since it is the structure for lots of theories about knowledge, understanding, and truth.
"I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way"
"What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world"