Each society has a regime of truth that determines what counts as true

Evidence

The inner validity, coherence, and objective significance of all sciences, technologies, and arts are completely independent of the fact that they are realized within and find their preconditions in a social life, just as independent as their objective sense is of the psychological processes through which their discoverers found them. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 210 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

So we have the triangle: power, right, truth. In schematic terms, let us say that there is a traditional question, which is, I think, that of political philosophy. It can be formulated thus: How does the discourse of truth or, quite simply, philosophy—in the sense that philosophy is the discourse of truth par excellence—establish the limits of power’s right? That is the traditional question. Now the question I would like to ask is a question from below, and it is a very factual question compared to that traditional, noble, and philosophical question. My problem ts roughly this: What are the rules of right that power implements to produce discourses of truth? Or: What type of power is it that is capable of producing discourses of power that have, in a society like ours, such powerful effects? — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 42 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Descriptions can become true because people act on them believing they are true — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 577; Subordinated regimes of truth sustain plausibility for oppressed subjects; The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 210 (+13 more)

Related

• Power, right, and truth form an indissociable analytical triangle. (similarity 0.89)
• Truth is produced socially through power-sanctioned mechanisms of validation. (similarity 0.85)
• Power requires an economy of true discourses to function. (similarity 0.84)
• The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins (similarity 0.82)
• Postmodernism holds that truth claims are really bids for political power (similarity 0.82)
• Foucault’s method traces genealogy of truth coupled with law (similarity 0.79)
• Truth-bearing worldviews become instruments of organized barbarism once wielded as power. (similarity 0.79)
• Effective discourse that organizes power relations constitutes a regime of truth. (similarity 0.79)
• Life’s needs rather than independent reason determine what counts as truth (similarity 0.79)
• Truth of a theory is independent of either its productivity or its non-application (similarity 0.79)
• Reason was originally conceived as a subversive power that transforms reality toward truth (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Subordinated regimes of truth sustain plausibility for oppressed subjects #expands (0.82)
• The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins #contradicts (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 210
• Power, right, and truth form an indissociable analytical triangle. #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 42
• Ideology functions as signification that attains societal validity and justification #expands (0.78) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 819
• Undifferentiated power conflates truth with decision-making authority #expands (0.75)
• Modern social boundaries must be re-naturalized through demonstrated truth rather than habit #expands (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 172