Frankfurt defines truth as fact, and the only exception to truth is when all parties know the truth and that the lie is a lie. Lying is bad because it becomes the reality and causes loneliness and isolation. When the truth is withheld from a person, his self-knowledge is at stake. Truth is seen through physical evidence and quantifiable evidence.
Miller sees truth as something that is assumed and expected even when it is a lie. It does not have to be proved and it is necessarily fact. Because one wrote it in his or her memoir, it is truth. It is truth because it appeals to the emotions of the reader; the reader can relate with it.
Posted by illaria on November 30, 2008
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