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2007-02-08 21:09:11 · 4 answers · asked by sincere12_26 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Excellent question. I think th fundamentally you have to decide what a world without truth is all about. How would we function without truth, or at least without a perception of the truth?
For me, truth manifests itself in God and the hearts of good people as they live out their dedication to him. See I'm caught in a bit of an existential pickle myself because I think that lying to save someone's life is an acceptable "sin" but disobeying your parents just to be a pain in the *** is NOT an acceptable sin... in other words, I think there are some conditions to "right and wrong." Therefore, perhaps truth also is conditional. Maybe true is only true for certain circumstances. What is true, now, today may not be true tomorrow.
On Sept. 10, 2001 people would have said the airlines were a great investment and a safe way to travel. Their perception of truth was based on life experience and common knowledge. When something cataclysmic changed that understanding with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, their notion of truth was radically transformed. Suddenly traveling by air was not safe.
Sea what I mean? (nice question, by the way)
2007-02-09 01:17:23 · answer #1 · answered by bluebelly83 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
illusionary truth; we believe it because we have been told it e.g. news, media, school textbooks, etc
empirical truth; we believe it because we experienced it
ultimate truth; natural law (which we mostly don't know about or understand)
truth is also interpreted as honesty
untruth as dishonesty
2007-02-12 19:24:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
their nature is totally different as truth leads you to light whereas untruth leads you to darkness!
2007-02-08 22:15:58 · answer #3 · answered by sajad w 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's whatever you decide it to be. There aren't any universal truths. It's all relative.
2007-02-08 21:21:31 · answer #4 · answered by theanswerman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋