Mind:fzw010 (
2016)
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Abstract
This paper reexamines Kierkegaard's work with respect to the question whether
truth is one or many. I argue that his famous distinction between objective and
subjective truth is grounded in a unitary conception of truth as such: truth as self-coincidence. By explaining his use in this context of the term ‘redoubling’
[Fordoblelse], I show how Kierkegaard can intelligibly maintain that truth is neither
one nor many, neither a simple unity nor a complex multiplicity. I further show how
these points shed much-needed light on the relationship between objective and
subjective truth, conceived not as different kinds or species of truth but as different
ways in which truth manifests itself as a standard of success across different
contexts of inquiry.