St-Augustine as most of the Church Fathers have a very specific use of words. But, true, it does not get as twisted as Heidegger for example who's the blueprint for wordplay and neologism. Plato, Aristotle are very conceptual in fact but they had a very literary style which came form the pre-hellenistic greek culture (go back to Heraclites, Anaximandre,....) where the art of philosophy and poetry was one. Nietzsche: too many people have claimed understanding him and used random quotes, in fact just reducing his philosophy to something very narrow minded. But now, philosophers hold him as a highly important one. He brought back that the truth is an ever evolving notion and that perspective is everything.
truth is ever evolving? hmm.. see, im going to have to disagree, at least in part.
the truth is the truth. what is true can not be false and what is false can not be true. that is by definition, and anything to the contrary would be changing the definition of those terms.
see, modern philosophers like to disregard metaphysics and any system with reference to the infinite. they see truth as unreachable.... bbecause of problems with induction and causation pointed out by david hume.
but.. a think leibnez actually did build a workable system without gaps. causation is real.. infinite exists as God the creator, and a-priori knowledge is truly a fact..
kant and william james are two people who can bridge the gap between the rationalist and empiricsts
