2007-01-03 19:09:44 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
it's not supposed to be, but people will debate it anyway.
2007-01-05 20:40:34 · answer #1 · answered by pokerpaul 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The truth is debatable. Of course it is. You could even debate about George Washington being the first pres., but debating over truth doesn't change the fact that its truth. Take the fact that you need oxygen to live, that part is fact, but if you said its the most important thing you need to survive, that's opinion and therefore can be debated. Hope that helped.
2007-01-04 03:22:18 · answer #2 · answered by nearlynice 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Every new truth arrives once the old truth is questioned and debated. All that we know as truth are true over a time frame.... if the time frame is changed, truths can become false. Today, it is true that sun rises from the east every morning. Was it true when the Big Bang took place or will it remain true for all time to come? Every truth has a life and it must die when the time comes.... because time changes everything we can perceive and know in due course of time!!
2007-01-04 03:41:05 · answer #3 · answered by small 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes very much so. There is always three sides to the truth, yours, theirs, and then the truth. Aren't debates great? A debate of the facts is designed to find the truth, but objectively of course. References are always the key factor and then the checks and balances, mixed with common sense.
2007-01-04 03:42:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Idealism places truth on a high pedestal of being debatable intellectually, especially at an academic level.
In practice, debate ends up in diatribe, denying validity and credibility of an opposing view by accusing the next view of being a sham. Obfuscation further confuses the situation when one truth or untruth obscures another.
Questioning the high priest of most extreme beliefs and fundamentalists of any field will bring to question the real intent of debate; the pursuit of Truth often end in an arena torn to shreds.
Arguably, the grey area of debate on truth is won through blood and tears of successful policies over those discarded by the wayside, dictators and their oppressed citizens, oppressed people who then begin to view that they are not being oppressed afterall as was with the case of North Korea.
2007-01-04 12:55:48 · answer #5 · answered by pax veritas 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is true..But now pause to think, what good reason do you have to believe me, to consider the truth I present to be undebatable?
In the end most things(I do not dare make rash generalisations) are reduced to a matter of belief. Which makes it seem that philosophical rationality is based upon supposably unstable foundations that may be considered ultimately- irrational.
However the truth of this view may well be debated and in the end I have established nothing and yet have said a great deal.
2007-01-04 04:08:54 · answer #6 · answered by yasiru89 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The truth remains the truth, where as the debats around the truth are done to profit or minimize the loss ( depeding on which side of the debate are you) arising from that truth.
2007-01-11 20:24:55 · answer #7 · answered by Best Answer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth is based in fact. Liberals and the ignorant debate facts. There are absolute truths in life. All men(including women)will die. There are only two sexes. Each person has two parents. Etc.. If you can debate a truth it isn't based in fact and therefore isn't a real truth.
2007-01-04 03:20:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No it is not True!
Truth IS!
Is the law of electricity debatable?
2007-01-04 12:45:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Obviously, purported truths are debatable, but once something is established as true, debate becomes limited to fringe groups. It is true, for example, that Muslim highjackers flew airplanes into the WTC towers, causing their destruction. This does not keep crackpots from trying to debate this fact, posing various alternative conspiracy theories which typically involve some government plot.
2007-01-04 03:15:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Anything is debatable, but that wouldn't change the fact that it is a truth. (if in fact it was a truth that was being debated)
2007-01-04 03:27:46 · answer #11 · answered by OililyLove 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋