Horkheimer read the equation of reason with language as a denial of objective truth

Evidence

According to Horkheimer, this view had pervaded the whole history of bourgeois philosophy. In the seventeenth century the French had not called reason raison at all, but rather discours. But the intention behind the Carnap thesis had basically involved denying the existence of objective truth. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2157

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reason-versus-language debate that runs through Habermas’s later work and to Horkheimer’s instrumental-reason critique in Eclipse of Reason. — connects to: Horkheimer grounded reason’s universality in language’s inherent intention. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2158