Adler On Knowledge Adler On Knowledge To have knowledge consists in possessing the truth. False knowledge is impossible.
Theoretical truth is descriptive truth.
We have practical truth when our judgments about what should be sought or what should be done to conform to right desire. The dichotomy of true and false is exhaustive only when we suspend judgment and entertain a proposition without making judgments. Our judgments may be probable or improbable. They have certitude only when they are beyond the shadow of doubt. Like philosophical knowledge, mathematics results from armchair thinking.