2007-03-06 14:46:37 · 28 answers · asked by kenneth s 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The most truth is really in that which you experience is to be real. Often a truth to one person, is not true for another!
That which is most real and that you can experience.
2007-03-06 14:50:05 · answer #1 · answered by ukpreference 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no "truth". There is only the validity of objective observations. "Equipped with his five senses man explores the world around him and calls the adventure Science". (Edwin Powell Hubble). That's all science is, a tool for discerning validity that can be observed by everyone everywhere. Subjective "truths", on the other hand, are like shapes in the clouds. Oh, sure, the cloud may look like a bunny rabbit. It may also look like a fire engine or a map of Arkansas. Men can go to wars over whether the truth is "rabbit" or the truth is "Arkansas". People may be excommunicated, shunned, burned at the stake and other such nonsense over the "truth" of clouds. But, there would never be a consensus. No two people could ever perceive the cloud the same way. With objective lucidity, though, we can all perceive the actual cloud as a mixture of water and air. "True" is whatever we can ALL perceive universally. In that, Nature is true.
2007-03-06 23:15:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what it is...some things you can look up in a trusted text (like consulting a dictionary for a word spelling or defintion). Some things you may consult an expert about. You can ask someone you trust to have the right answer. Other things you have to listen to your own heart/soul. Some things you just have an instinct about. You know them to be true. Certain things you know from experience. You trust your senses. You believe your own eyes or ears.
Something is true when you believe it. When you are convinced of it. The essence of truth is trust. You must either trust yourself or someone or something else to tell you what's true. Without trust, you will never really know...
2007-03-06 23:10:02 · answer #3 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You require intellect in order to deduce the truth of some matter. Certain matters in their understanding are indisputable. As mentioned, we need the basic of knowledge or intellect to realize the truth of some matter. You will not know the truth, unless the truth is in you to know the meaning.
Most of the time we are concerned in simple verification of truth and commonsense is enough to solve the problem. The complex one will require a definite approach, utilizing the knowledge and aptitude to arrive at the truth of the matter. Generally, convening the thoughts with others, over the validity of truth, at best in the presence of worthy opponents will resolve the matter in questioned.
2007-03-07 23:49:52 · answer #4 · answered by cheng 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will know when something is true when fiction and doubt are not in center stage. This idea is fully explained in the book "Another Thought" by OC Tross.
2007-03-06 22:55:18 · answer #5 · answered by ken123 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps we can never establish if something is absolutely true. It is only our relativistic grasp of facts in truth that help us form our opinions about things in life. For example, I hold this to true that human beings are intelligent because at times they have capacity to act foolishly, besides in comparison with animals humans are far superior in manipulating their natural environment for their own good. But the question, are we really intelligent, can never be answered.
There is the absolute truth, as abstract reality in the mind, and then there is relative truth, which is actually about facts in the absolute truth. The entire body of our knowledge is based upon our arbitrary or referential definitions of things, and therefore our opinions about things; each thing in the body of human knowledge is known only with a reference to other things about it.
The only way to have the nearest possible grasp of truth in reality is by knowing things ourselves; it is only from a fixed vantage point of our own personal observation that we can know truth the best possible way that is humanly possible. For example, we can know things as true if they are in keeping with our own wellbeing, as the truth is synonymous with the good.
We can even go beyond the domains of knowledge and learn to know scientifically unknown things to be absolutely true. The power of our faith and believe can, for instance, make us do miraculous things in this world; the power of truth induce from beliefs is so strong that, in my view, nothing better or stronger has ever been conceived by human mind. And yet what is a belief, as belief is superbly formed opinion about things we cannot know or prove with the help of science or reason.
The absolute truth perhaps can be known, but not through knowledge that is subjective to material forms and limitative definitions, but through an act of believing in all that we can believe best – the truth can be found in our own opinions.
2007-03-07 08:26:07 · answer #6 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it looks true to you and it sounds true to you and you investigate its source then it probably is true. But, wait....that may be your truth but not mine. We live in different lives and my trues and your trues may be a distant apart but it won't make them less true for you...or me.
2007-03-08 18:04:23 · answer #7 · answered by missellie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Analyse
2007-03-07 02:24:47 · answer #8 · answered by parvaneh m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you jump out of a plane without a parachute and hit the ground...you will know that the law of gravity is true!
2007-03-06 23:08:06 · answer #9 · answered by jkk k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are things is life that you now beyond reasonable doubt are true, e.g. the sky is blue...the only truth in life is that which can be proven over and over again based on fact beyond reasonable doubt.
2007-03-07 07:19:58 · answer #10 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋