The paradoxical appearance of the formula fades away once it...

The paradoxical appearance of the formula fades away once it is set against the Aristotelian background of the potential and the actual.

Theoretical truth, for its part, may now be understood as the ideal correspondence, considered in abstract, between ideas and things, as a limit humans will never be able to reach (‘There is a mark to which the man who has the rule looks, and heightens or relaxes his activity accordingly, and there is a standard which determines the mean states which we say are intermediate between excess and defect’[^19] ).

We can sum up the general characteristics of practical truth as follows: it consists in the adaptation of two poles brought about by the action of a subject; it is established when the adaptation is without any violence by either pole on the…