2007-03-16 05:35:42 · 14 answers · asked by Scotty Doesnt Know 7 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
As much as I like Star Wars, I have to say no. The truth is just one, since it's the correspondance of the mind with reality. Such correspondance depends on reality (object), not the person (subject).
There's no such thing as a subjective truth. It is a contradiction. By definition, the truth depends only in reality.
There may exist different points of view towards the same point. But the truth is only one, it's complete and anything that is not included in it is immeadiatly false.
2007-03-16 05:51:54 · answer #1 · answered by andee_52950 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I often wonder where this idea came from that "truth" is an amorphous, changing thing, relative to the individual. Perhaps on other "planes of existance" it might be, but HERE - in the physical universe - where everything is set into physical matter and we cannot back-up in time and alter or un-do something that has already happened, it is neither amorphous nor changeable.
2 and 2 is NOT going to add up to 5 or 7 or 39 just because someone wants to think it does. It will NEVER add up to anything BUT 4. You can play with different incremental number systems - as the notorious "new math" of the 70's did - but that is only changing the labels we put on it.
XX+XX will STILL, ALWAYS be XXXX whether we label the integers "2" and "4" or call them something else!
You can represent a lie or an unintentional fabrication as "truth", and even get millions or billions of people believing it, but if it is NOT what ACTUALLY DID happen or what something ACTUALLY IS, it is not "TRUTH".
No matter HOW strongly you may WANT to believe that a rotten tomato is really a tennis ball, if you throw it up in the air and hit it with a raquet, what you get will NOT be 40-love!
If you have an object that is blue on one side and red on the other, the person who sees only the red side will perceive it as being red while the person seeing only the other side will perceive it as blue. There are many who would like to argue that this situation has two conflicting "truth"s to it - one that the object is red and the other that it is blue - but the only "TRUTH" involved is that neither of these assesments is correct. It is STILL red on one side and blue on the other - THAT is the ONLY "TRUTH" involved.
If the person seeing the red side had the psycho-kinetic ability to turn it all red with his perception and the person seeing it as blue could do likewise, then the "Truth" would STILL not be "red" or "blue". In THAT event, the "TRUTH" would be that the color was unstable and psycho-kinetically changeable.
"Perception" is one thing and "Truth" is another. They are totally different, like the proverbial "apples and oranges" (or tomatoes and tennis balls).
2007-03-16 17:20:41 · answer #2 · answered by monarch butterfly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein talked about Frame of reference... how fast are you going right now? Does that mean the earth spinning, the planet orbiting around the sun, the sun around the galaxy, the galaxy in space, the speed you type, walk/run etc. etc. There are truths that remain the same regardless of the view point... you just might be able to see more of the truth. Simple example: Picture an apple from varying frames of references, sometimes it is easier to decide it is an apple. It is an apple. To a starving person it is food, to a person well fed it might be decoration... it is still an apple. The value changes based on the frame of reference or view point (life)
Think to historical wars, there are heroes on both sides... the other sees the other hero as a villain (sometimes)... Ultimately the victor writes the history.
2007-03-16 13:02:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Obi Wan Kenobi was a wise man...if only the Jedi were real! I use the force on a daily basis, don't you? Yes, he was right!
2007-03-16 12:43:36 · answer #4 · answered by vanhammer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ummmmmmmmm Obie-Wan Kenobi wasn't real.
2007-03-16 12:39:32 · answer #5 · answered by Diana 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Obi-Wan Kenobi was a fictional character...
What's his face....(thinking)... Oh yeah, George Lucas was right because he wrote it... But then again... The Ewoks and Jar Jar Bink's also came from his stream of consciousness too so...
2007-03-16 12:40:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can either see truth as what actually happened in reality or what you honestly believe happened according to your perception of reality. So I guess obi was right somewhat.
I like G.I. JOE'S(cartoon) philosophy "Now you know and knowing is half the battle".
2007-03-16 12:54:04 · answer #7 · answered by obscure 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I like Bobby J's answer so much, I'm not going to rehash most all of what he said.
"Help me Obi-Wan, you're my only hope."
or was he?
2007-03-16 14:06:45 · answer #8 · answered by doublewidemama 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, well george lucas was, anyway. the only thing that makes us truly different is perspective. experiences, you know? where we are born, perspective. how much money we have, perspective. love, abundance of, lack of, want for, all perspective. it is true for me that the sun rises over the mountains, yet the same statement isn't universally true. i guess the same goes for everything, from spiritual to geography. where do you stand? we, as humans, are prone to change. what changes us if not our point of view?
2007-03-16 12:51:38 · answer #9 · answered by barbsmonsta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe. Almost used to feeling elated at looking at my so-called 'cute' face , i have had instances when i jump startled on looking at a black bear only to realise a moment later it was a mirror at a different point of view.
2007-03-16 12:45:33 · answer #10 · answered by fleur 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋