how do u define truth?

Answer 1

Three sorts of truth:

1. Semantic (e.g., a cygnet is a baby swan),

2. Logical (e.g., if a and b, then a),

3. Contingent (e.g., the planet Earth has just one moon).

Three criteria of contingent truth:

1. Correspondence: - a true proposition maps (corresponds to) the way the world is,

2. Coherence: - a true proposition coheres with (does not contradict, lends evidential support to ) other true propositions,

3. Pragmatic: - a true proposition is one that 'works' (leads to success) if believed.

Answer 2

I have to agree with a few of these answers to a point. Mainly that truth, as far a we can physically understand it, is based on perception, and absolutes cannot exist...at least in the state of understanding them. I believe that there are absolute truths, but our understanding of them is impossible. The basic idea of a perception is that it is based on the information that we have at our disposal, and not all the information about any given subject. If said information is incomplete, then we cannot know if the perception is correct or not, thus if the truth about the situation is actually true. The only way to know if the perception is true is to have full knowledge about the subject as well as all corresponding information as well. As you continue down this line you'll see you must have all information of everything to truly understand anything. Being as humans do not have that capability yet, we cannot know any absolute truths, or any truth at all for that matter. That is not to say that we might have stumbled upon some that prove to be absolutes, but there is no way of knowing that at this point. It is the greatest quest of humans to seek what truth is, but is impossible to actually know what it is in our current state. I suppose to answer the question, truth is all factual information looked at from a correct perception.

Answer 3

In its basic usage, the adjective "true" has a very straightfoward meaning. J.L. Austin summarised it thus: to assert that a proposition p is true is to maintain that "p corresponds to the facts", which he says is "a piece of standard English" and therefore "can hardly be wrong". More precisely, the word "true" denotes the validity of an intended (or expected) correspondence between a representation and what it represents. This is clear from the following examples.
In a street plan of North Oxford, if the lines of the plan exhibit approximately the same two-dimensional shape as streets, we say it is true to the geography.
A woman is prosecuted for causing a car crash, but claims it was another driver's fault. She appeals to a video recording made from a traffic camera. If what the woman says agrees with what is seen on the videotape, then we say that her claim is true to the facts.
In a physics exam, I am confronted by a multiple-choice question, which says "Tick which of the following propositions is true ...". I then tick whichever of the propositions corresponds to the experimental results that I have seen or read about in textbooks.
Before a consultation witha psychiatric doctor, I fill in a questionnaire with multiple-choice questions about my headaches and other mental disturbances, such as hallucinations, which again begins by saying "Tick which of the following propositions are true ...". I then tick those that correspond to my private mental experiences.
What these all have in common is that each situation involves two 'systems', purportedly linked by a 'mapping'. One system is a 'representation' of the other, the latter being called 'reality'. The purpose of the mapping is to let us use the representation to communicate infomation about the reality. In the first example, the two systems are (a) a piece of paper with pencil marks on it and (b) North Oxford, and the mapping is a spatial isomorphism between those two. This is a useful mapping, because you can carry the plan around in your pocket, whereas you cannot carry North Oxford around with you; and it enables you to find places in North Oxford.
Thus truth, in these basic cases, is merely the corresepondence between the representation and what it represents. This is just common sense, but philosophers call it The Correspondence Theory of Truth.

There are other uses of the word "true", which may be regarded as extensions of the basic usage. For instance: a wife may ask whether her husband has been true to her, meaning faithful; or the Church may advocate worship of the "one true God", as opposed to false gods, meaning that God really exists.

Answer 4

Truth=Clarity=life.

Answer 5

Truth is totally subjective. You can only be True to your own perception.

I might think someone was unreasonably horrible to me, but the person might think they were helping me with though love and home truths. Both would be the truth from our own perspective.

I've argued about weather a colour was dark red or brown, or turquoise or green, with my brother as a child. We both had our own truths based on our perception of colour, nither right nor wrong.

Believing truth is absolute and that you have knowledge of Truth, leads to bigotry.

Answer 6

An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

That which is universally and at all times the determining basis for the reality of existence. Factuality, and the which exists regardless of view point or relative opinion. The essence of natural law and its principles.

Answer 7

I define truth as the one state that no one will ever have.

Answer 8

The jesting Pilate asked, "What is Truth?" and did not wait for a reply. The truth is: as many philosophical schools, so many definitions of 'truth'. Which philosophical school do you prefer?

Answer 9

Everyone's truth is based on their experience of life and perceptions of the world around them. There are no absolutes really, except maybe the old saying- we all have to die and pay taxes.

Are you looking for my life story? I'll tell it. But I doubt I'll get it all written tonight and I also doubt it will all fit here.

Answer 10

Is it more useful to define a concept, or to experience an experience?