The fact is that todayand on this point things have not shifted since Platowe know only four types of truths: science (mathematics and physics), love, politics andthe arts. We can compare this situation to pino!a"s report concerning the attri#utes ofu#stance (the $e%pressions" of &od): there are undou#tedly, pino!a says, an infinity ofattri#utes, #ut we, men, know only two, thought and e%tension. Perhaps there are, we willsay, an infinity of types of truths, #ut we, men, know only four. 'owever, we know themtruly. (n such a way that our relation to truths)is a#solute.