Ivan asked:

How does a real philosopher notice when he has found the total truth he is looking for?

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Good question. But a real philosopher would realize that the notion of "total truth" was not the name
of anything clear, so that he would have to clarify it to himself before he could know that he had found
it. I know that judges admonish the witness to speak "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth". But that is in a context. I doubt very much that the notion of truth has much meaning outside of
any context whatsoever. The late philosopher, J. L. Austin used to talk about "the fallacy of talking
about nothing in particular". You may be committing just that fallacy.

Ken Stern