Not invented, evolved. You detect the shift in that philosophy was not thinking *about* God etc, but thinking God etc. Hence truth was a kind of participation not examination - the “proofs” of God in Aquinas or Anselm, say, a form of meditation: recognising the finite mind can reflect the infinite.

Isn’t that framing anachronistic? The notion of objective truth is 18th century and relatedly nihilism, or no value, was coined then. Truth before, and in Plato, was about participation - knowing being a sharing of minds/nous, not an examination by one mind, which may radically doubt any connection.

Thanks for saying so!

Will ask. And/or try to record