The Nuance Of Truth

Nuance encompasses the complexities, subtleties, and deeper details of an idea as they relate to each other, manifesting itself across a great deal of philosophy's universal territory.  The complex nature of certain aspects of reality cannot be tossed aside without the forfeiture of rationality.  Indeed, a grasp of nuance involves at least some minimal amount of intelligence.  It is nonetheless the case that nuance is not the ultimate arbiter of truth.

The absence of nuance may be mistaken for an absence of significance or veracity.  Moreover, some people go beyond succumbing to this superficial confusion.  They may even reject an idea because it is allegedly not nuanced enough, even though this is an inherently invalid basis for rejecting anything at all.  Of course, nuance and truth do overlap in many cases.  To deny this is to deny a large component of miscellaneous truths.

Truth is often nuanced, sometimes to the point of the simultaneous veracity of certain concepts being paradoxical (truths are paradoxical when they seem to conflict but do not).  What this does not mean is that nuance is a requirement for an idea to be true.  Reason itself is the simplest thing possible, and yet it is also the key to understanding the complexities of various truths.  However, not all truths are paradoxical or complex in themselves.

Sometimes a fact might have no other nature than that which it appears to have.  This does not mean that a fact is unimportant or not worth knowing.  Yes, many of the most important logical facts are precise and sometimes quite complex, but importance is not synonymous with complexity.  Each characteristic can be held by an idea independently or at the same time; neither excludes or necessitates the other.

There is a deep nuance tied to the very nature of many truths, but nuance does not make a concept reflect reality.  Only those who are willing to make assumptions would think that an idea is even more likely to be true if it is more specific, abstract, or complicated than another given idea.  Nuance can be exciting and even intoxicating to some thinkers--at least in some cases--but it is only a byproduct of the veracity of an idea rather than the reason why something is true.