Read the excerpt below and answer the question.
I have concealed no crimes, added no virtues;...
Read the excerpt below and answer the question.
I have concealed no crimes, added no virtues; and if I have sometimes introduced superfluous ornament, it
was merely to occupy a void occasioned by defect of memory: I may have supposed that certain, which I only
knew to be probable, but have never asserted as truth, a conscious falsehood. (Confessions, Book 1,
Paragraph 3)
Based on this passage from Rousseau's Confessions, what can readers infer is Rousseau's relationship with the truth"?
Rousseau believes in absolute truth and strives to reveal it in his work
Rousseau believes in absolute truth, but recognizes that memory changes it.
Rousseau believes in being truthful, but acknowledges that perspectives, memories and experiences alter it
Rousseau believes in being truthful about most things, but seeks to conceal the worst parts of himself from his readers.
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