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But ding, how can you or I know what truth is, separate from our perception of it? Everything we know is a perception, isn't it?No. Quite the opposite. I am deconvoluting the subject. Truth and perception of truth are two different things.That would be perception of truth.
Is that your truth? Or mine?
Trust you to convolute the matter.
Yes, but we cannot know reality or "facts" outside our individual perception of it. It's not a big deal if we're talking about What Is A Tree? but it can be quite an issue when we discuss political matters.Truth is facts, reality, honesty and acceptance, no matter the personal or political costs.
Yes, but we cannot know reality or "facts" outside our individual perception of it. It's not a big deal if we're talking about What Is A Tree? but it can be quite an issue when we discuss political matters.Truth is facts, reality, honesty and acceptance, no matter the personal or political costs.
Let’s use forced slavery as an example. Is forced slavery ever right? Or is it my perception that forced slavery is wrong?But ding, how can you or I know what truth is, separate from our perception of it? Everything we know is a perception, isn't it?No. Quite the opposite. I am deconvoluting the subject. Truth and perception of truth are two different things.That would be perception of truth.
Is that your truth? Or mine?
Trust you to convolute the matter.
I agree. Truth is eventually discovered because error cannot stand. Eventually error fails because it is not true.Yes, but we cannot know reality or "facts" outside our individual perception of it. It's not a big deal if we're talking about What Is A Tree? but it can be quite an issue when we discuss political matters.Truth is facts, reality, honesty and acceptance, no matter the personal or political costs.
In my view, the truth is the truth no matter how difficult it is to find or to get others to acknowledge it. Even in politics
Argumets are eventually refined over time and eventually, even the most deniable truths will be known.
You can if you eliminate bias and a preference for an outcome. The difference between subjective and objective is bias.Yes, but we cannot know reality or "facts" outside our individual perception of it. It's not a big deal if we're talking about What Is A Tree? but it can be quite an issue when we discuss political matters.Truth is facts, reality, honesty and acceptance, no matter the personal or political costs.
The mind wandersAn overview of the philosophy of truth.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. —Thoreau
Truth tends to lead to successful action. In that much, truth has instrumental value. But truth also has intrinsic value. Given the choice between a life of limitless pleasure as a brain in a vat and a genuine human life along with all its pain and suffering, most people opt for the latter.
In Plato’s Cratylus, Socrates says that aletheia (Greek, ‘truth’) is a compression of the phrase ‘a wandering that is divine’. Since Plato, many thinkers have spoken of truth and God in the same breath, and truth has also been linked with things like justice, power, and freedom. According to John the Apostle, Jesus said to the Jews: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
When Truth Isn't Truth
What Is Truth?
What are the "people" themselves gonna do?Over in the U.K. in the run-up to the Brexit referendum, Michael Gove, then Minister of Justice and Lord Chancellor, opined that people "have had enough of experts."
Superman is NOT BizarroWhat is Truth?
The opposite of a lie..
Why do you refer to the truth as it or an it? Reminded me of the song "Put your shoes on Lucy, cause were going to the city".Quotes
- The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. ...
- A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ...
- Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Is a pearl a seed?An overview of the philosophy of truth.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. —Thoreau
Truth tends to lead to successful action. In that much, truth has instrumental value. But truth also has intrinsic value. Given the choice between a life of limitless pleasure as a brain in a vat and a genuine human life along with all its pain and suffering, most people opt for the latter.
In Plato’s Cratylus, Socrates says that aletheia (Greek, ‘truth’) is a compression of the phrase ‘a wandering that is divine’. Since Plato, many thinkers have spoken of truth and God in the same breath, and truth has also been linked with things like justice, power, and freedom. According to John the Apostle, Jesus said to the Jews: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
When Truth Isn't Truth
What Is Truth?
