Frankfurt and Miller vary greatly in their personal definitions of truth. Frankfurt claims truth is a scientific, universal, and objective truth for all people. In other words, truth is the same for all people because there are certain things that are true for everyone regardless of any differences, etc. Miller disagrees. She views truth as something that depends more on the relatonship between the reader and the text (the "autobiographical pact"). To Miller, when a writer is composing a memoir, his own bias is unavoidable which will, therefore, inevitably emerge in his final work. The memoir contains what he views to be true which may or not actually be what happened. However, this fact is irrelevant because the piece can have an emotional truth. This emotional truth, according to Miller, is just as important and accurate as the factual universal truth that Frankfurt describes.
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