antitruth

antitruth

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ truth

Noun

antitruth (usually uncountable, plural antitruths)

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   • 2001, Amar Nath Prasad, Studies in Indian English Fiction (page 33)

     Vasu's archetypal self is the extroller of a negative truth, or antitruth; "the mythical structure" becomes its primary technique.

   • 2002, David Wittenberg, Philosophy, Revision, Critique (page 47)

     The identification of art as the specific antitruth, the secret subversive life of truth within the self-deluded formalism of Platonic thought, of course gives Nietzsche the polemical thrust needed to destroy the pretension of Platonism, which, as a will to truth, must be viewed not merely as an error but as nihilism.