What is truth?

Question

Can we know what truth is or is everything relative?
Is Truth what is true to me or is there objective truth?

Answer 1

truth is raw ,unrefined reality. truth is unhampered by such things as consideration,ethics or even law. truth can only be truth.

Answer 2

Truth is a proven thing, it's real and has a very definitive meaning. 1+1=2 can not be denied as a truth in it's purest form.

A truth can not be relative or subjective therefore by definition.

Answer 3

Truth is FULL & TOTAL DISCLOSURE. It means No Omitting, or just telling half of the facts or saying that "you never asked"....

Truth can be objective to the point where ones perception of the facts can be relative to how they see it, BUT if your being Honest & Truthful then you need to be upfront about saying just that ( if its your Opinion of the facts ). Truth goes hand & hand with Honesty.

For Example someone that is color blind obviously will see one color as another, but that doesn't mean they are lying, but they need to make that fact known that they are color blind. Another Example is the 5 senses... someone can percievce something one way while another person another way, but you need to make it clear that its your opinion and not pass it off as overwhelming accross the board scientific fact.

The glass half full or empty theory.

Answer 4

Truth is a consensus of what all believe to be true. If an automobile accident occurs and several people see it. Each person will have a version of what they see. To that person, the truth is what they saw. The actual truth is what all people who observed the accident state and believe to be true. So the subjective truth is what each person believes to have happened. The objective truth is what all agree to have happened.

Answer 5

Truth is God. Truth is Gods word. Truth is contained in the bible. Some will say that is a limited black and white view. But it's not - it's the truth.

Answer 6

[13:2] Alif Lam Mim Ra. These are the verses of the perfect Book. That which has been revealed to thee from thy Lord is the truth, but most men believe not.

Answer 7

I think truth is the thing that can go over the time. Time is the condemnation of all falsities or near wrights. We have to learn the ability to plunge ourselves in the wave of the time. And I even think that truth is one, but with different forms. They are different cars, but always cars. Yes but this one is a diesel and that is sunpower one. wright, but they are always motor. We are all different, but we are all built by the same bricks.

Answer 8

Truth as we know it represents our necessarily incomplete assessment of the nature of some observed phenomenon. To know the absolute truth about that nature would be to know everything about the nature of the universe, as all things in it are part of the same whole.

Answer 9

Truth is subjective. There's no one thing that I could say that would convey its meaning, because it changes from person to person and situation to situation. In fact, truth is the essence of subjectivity, because nothing is always true

Answer 10

Truth is an honest and accurate account of all things right or wrong.

Answer 11

truth i think is something unseen and so the best thing you've got is to trust...to trust what you belive or what others tell you but knowing what is really true in real reality i dont think anyone can really tell you that because how do you know an atom is relaly called an atom? you can't. you only know its an atom becasue people tell you its an atom. but you can choose to trust them and in doing so there is truth.