2007-01-16 22:11:03 · 7 answers · asked by pax veritas 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
COMMENTS
Ruminator – Thank you for the rectification of "necessarily" that provides a clause, as opposed to cause, for ambiguity. It is certainly without dispute a correct way to phrase philosophical A grade questions. For that, we thank you in pointing this out.
Ambiguity pervades life, shades of grey, where one element is rarely dominant in totality if ever so fleetingly. For the sake of universal convenience, definitive terms shall be considered for future postings.
2007-01-17 17:08:56 · update #1
Truth by definition is consistent and is not susceptible to change.
However, one man's truth is different... it is just what he believes to be true. Another man's belief could of course be different. Such truth as is believed by someone to be true is very probably, though not necessarily, believed to be false by someone else. It is highly improbable that every person's belief with respect to anything would be identical. For all practical purposes therefore, one man's truth is some other man;s lie.
2007-01-16 22:41:53 · answer #1 · answered by small 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your questions would be much more focused if you omitted the word "necessarily." (see also - If all truths are necessarily relative...)
Posing the question thus - Is one man's Truth another man's Lie? - demands an unequivocal answer whereas adding the qualifier "necessarily" provides cause for ambiguity.
The answer to you question is; not necessarily.
2007-01-17 07:12:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
While truth is universal, perspective needs to be taken into account.
Fact: Pills solve your headache.
Fact: Pills will kill me dead.
Once you alter perspective, you alter most things.
If facts line up within perspectives, truth is truth and there is no conflict. If there is conflict, then everything changes.
2007-01-17 06:32:21 · answer #3 · answered by Venom Spartan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
absolutely... because....
You will never find 2 people that agree on absolutely everything to the same degree. Therefore what is a truth to someone, you can find someone in this world that will disagree with them.
2007-01-17 06:17:13 · answer #4 · answered by Mckayla M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truth is universal.
2007-01-17 06:20:01 · answer #5 · answered by Tashi 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truth stand on it's own...
Human thinking fogs it... shatters it into million pieces.
Sometimes we call them ideas,
sometimes we call them opinions.
But not generally the truth.
& yes you can lie with your own idea & opinion.
2007-01-17 12:38:10 · answer #6 · answered by enki 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not necessary but possible..
2007-01-17 06:47:49 · answer #7 · answered by phoenix! 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋