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| | Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Review: Truth by Simon Blackburn |
 | | Without absolute truths, and the reiterated insistence of their enduring reality, the Catholic church would have no basis, a fact to which Ratzinger and, we assume, the vast majority of cardinals, were acutely alive when they sealed themselves into the Sistine Chapel to choose a successor to their dead capo di capi. |
 | | Truth is based on the texts of the Gifford lectures delivered last year at the University of Glasgow, and on other, occasional lectures and articles written over the past four or five years. |
 | | For all the excitement of the chase after truth, perhaps we would do best to follow the example of the ancient sceptics, for whom, Blackburn writes, "it was an admirable consequence of their scepticism that they lost conviction, lost enthusiasm as it were for holding one opinion rather than another. |
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