If TRUTH is supposed to be unchanging... can anything you KNOW be TRUE? You can BELIEVE anything. You can BELIEVE something forever, regardless what it is. Things you KNOW change every day with each new discovery. So doesn't it follow that TRUTH and BELIEF are better dance partners than KNOWLEDGE and TRUTH?
2006-06-26 18:11:33 · 11 answers · asked by mark_hafley 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Definitely. For a good abstraction of this topic read "The Sickness Unto Death" by Soren Kierkegaard. His argument for the impossibility of objective truth is a good one. You'll hear a lot of people who think that you can have true knowledge, but the only way that's possible is to have someone outside the fishbowl of human limitations give it to them. That's why religious people can claim to have absolute truth - if God tells you something, you can probably count on it being true - human beings are so lucky however.
2006-06-26 18:21:21 · answer #1 · answered by crono37 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In my own theory, there is no real truth in the world. It cannot be true because everything that we learn and believe is own best explaination for what occurs in life. For example, history is far from truth because man cannot truly record the past. History is the what the majority of scholars accept. I believe that even the mathematics and physics of our century fail to answer our questions of the universe. Only God is perfect.( When I prefer to God I do not refer to any particular religion. I just want to mention the God that most people feel exists but no one can truly prove). Everything in human kinds invention is flawed because nothing can be 100% accurate. The best way to gain the most wisdom in life is to be open to all views and opinions because only in that way can we really come one step closer to the truth.
2006-06-26 19:55:15 · answer #2 · answered by Doanh D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge, beleif and truth are the three dancing partners who will never part. The truth is true only if you beleive it is true. Your beleif in the truth leads to knowledge that this is one true thing in the world.
2006-06-26 21:19:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you are right everything changes, societies, morals, ideas, theories, nature, the universe.
For me truth is about faith. Believing in something you cannot see, hear or touch. Something that so profoundly changes your life, it can't be shaken.
Something you know so innately to be truth that it remains changeless.
2006-06-26 18:33:05 · answer #4 · answered by D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to many philosophers, you cannot really know anything other than that you, yourself, in some sense exist. Other than that, you have no real evidence for anything. This is summed up in "the cogito," the famous statement by Descartes that, "Cogito, ergo sum," or "I think, therefore I am."
2006-06-26 18:23:56 · answer #5 · answered by Todd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, my goodness! In the TOTAL, GRAND PLAN of things, we likely can not know what is true. We are just mere "ants." and are working with primitive minds. I only know the following to be TRUE: I love my family and my family love me. What else is there?
2006-06-26 23:46:25 · answer #6 · answered by Bluebeard 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know the saying, "Cogito ergo sum" - I think therefore I am - Rene DesCartes? Well, actually, it should be "Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum" - I THINK I think therefore I THINK I am - ( that is all you know and all you need to know- Keats - sort of...). We may all just be synapsis in the Mind of God - cosmic virtual reality. Relax and don't think so heard...your brain will jump the track.
2006-06-26 18:19:42 · answer #7 · answered by ckswife 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that Jesus is the son of God and the savior of the world. I know that to be truth.
2006-06-26 18:26:55 · answer #8 · answered by Lisa N 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
number never change, they will always add the same subtract the same etc... great question good thinker
2006-06-26 18:16:17 · answer #9 · answered by pinktheunicorn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it makes my brain hurt
2006-06-26 18:46:08 · answer #10 · answered by Chad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋