Bateson 27, under the axiom "Science never proves anything": "Let us say that truth would mean a precise correspondence between our descriptions and what we describe or between our total network of abstractions and deductions and some total understanding of the outside world. Truth in this sense is not obtainable."
also 27: "our description will be in words and figures or pictures [and] what we describe is going to be in flesh and blood and action [but] even disregarding that hurdle of translation, we shall never be able to claim final knowledge of anything whatsoever"