Abstract
The article aims to discuss and problematize the truth in the mathematical knowledge context and its intrinsic relation with the development of modern science and the modernity period. In order to do so, we will present and discuss the concepts presented by Michel Foucault on truth-knowledge and the zero-point epistemology notion presented by Castro-Gómez. After this initial analysis, the article presents the certainty ideology notion, which is one of the ways in which this truth conception presented by Foucault and Castro-Gómez in Mathematics enters the school context and Mathematics Education. Finally, we present another kind of truth, also proposed by Foucault and called the ‘truth-event’ and its relation to the school context.
Keywords:
Truth-knowledge; Zero-point epistemology; Certainty Ideology; Truth-even; Mathematics Education