If you had three people, experts in every fashion of their area of expertise come together to have a lovely debate about what is Truth, how do you suppose that would go? I put forward that these three people would be of Religion, Science and Philosophy or the three main branches of human intellect. What do you suppose would assist or prevent these three from coming to an agreement that they all have truth, but all are in error?
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2007-02-14 02:14:19 · 9 answers · asked by vicarious_notion 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There would be no agreement between the three and it would end with namecalling, i.e "uneducatated", "heathens", and "closemined," and a further the distance betweent the three, science, religion and philosophy.
The simplisic, all enompassing answer to why is: Human Pride.
Perception is reality. And for someone to change thier perception of "truth," even slightly would turn thier reality upside down, and force them to admit that they had previously lived thier lives "wrong". Pride makes the admittance of fault too difficult for most people.
P.S.
You probably already saw it, but if not, I highly recommend the movie Pi.
2007-02-14 02:52:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the gadget of mathematics there are oftentimes going on mathematical truths, which signifies that if an alien species advanced their personal mathematics, it might want to be per ours. although, and inspite of the reality that it really is used to describe the universe more desirable wisely than the different gadget, mathematics is an fullyyt fabricated artwork of the mind's eye, without more desirable lifestyles than the Easter Bunny.
2016-11-03 10:28:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would agree about the truths they had each discovered in their fields and disagree about the errors or misperceptions they each had made.
It's simple, because truth IS universal, that's why we call it Universal Truth.
By the way mathmatics has some errors too.
In the physical universe there is no such thing as 0. It's an absolute. Not attainable.
1+1 = 2 etc, is also not actually possible since an EXACT duplicate also cannot occurr in the physical universe.
2007-02-14 02:38:57 · answer #3 · answered by thetaalways 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In all acualatlity if these people were very smart they would not agree on anything. You see we as humans make simple definitions for things such as 1+1=2. All around the entire globe someone in every nation knows this simple equation. But these three men being so smart, could argue the point that there could be evidence out there that would lead 1+1=4 or something like that. Our minds are only capable at what we allow them to be capable at. If we broaden our horizions, nothing is a universial truth, rather, it is something that has not been proving wrong yet
2007-02-14 02:21:10 · answer #4 · answered by Ecclesiastes 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Science is the only worthwhile one there. Philosophy isn't much better than religion.
Mathematics isn't a universal truth though. Platonic ideas about ideal forms are just false. After Godel's incompleteness theorem mathematicians have had to accept that they don't have access to objective truth in the way they'd hoped.
2007-02-14 02:20:58 · answer #5 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because 'truth' itself is a logic concept, mathematics is the only way to determine truth or nontruth.
Without Zero-Order Logic, you could never determine the truth value of anything. For really meaningful analysis you need First-Order or even Second-Order logic.
But in the quest for 'truth', you can never escape logic.
2007-02-14 02:22:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mathematics is both universal and truth.
2007-02-14 02:18:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Math is the ONLY truth I can trust
2007-02-14 02:25:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
God is the highest form of truth
Mathamatics, biology, physics, chemistry are lower truths
2007-02-14 02:19:26 · answer #9 · answered by Gods child 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋