How can we define truth? Does it depend on our culture, perceptions, paradigms or none of these at all?
2007-03-17 02:12:27 · 24 answers · asked by purplereaper251 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
God is truth. His word is the light and the truth.
2007-03-17 02:15:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Truth is what is!
It is not dependent on culture, perceptions, paradigms. It is the objective reality; again, truth is what IS.
Now to be fair we need to affirm that we as human beings acknowledge the truth, or recognize the truth through the filters of our culture, perceptions, and underlining paradigms. We do not live in a vacuum; we are conditioned by the culture we live in and by those paradigms which we accept without evening knowing it. All of these will impact are acknowledgement of the truth.
An analogy may help.
I may not like a certain truth and, thus, deny it, but that in no way makes it less the truth.
For instance, I can deny objective reality. I can affirm that only what I see is truth. So if I'm walking along and the way seems clear, as soon as I walk into a clear glass wall, I will realize that what I perceived was not, in fact, truth.
The truth is not dependent on my perceptions; it is that which IS.
2007-03-17 09:40:14 · answer #2 · answered by Curious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth to most people is that which does the best job of supporting the paradigm they currently cherish the most.
Is can be very different depending on our culture, perceptions and our fears.
This of course is not the real truth. The real truth to me is Love.
The great thing about this truth is that it needs no defense, it stands up quite well on it's own.
Unlike an untruth that is seen as something that needs to be constantly defended.
The interesting thing about the truth is that it could care less if you happen to believe in it or not. It does not see your belief in it as being relevant to its existence in any way.
This is because your belief either for or against the truth does not effect its reality it in any way at all. It simply is.
Your denial of it is irrelevant to it and changes absolutely nothing about it.
The neat thing about the truth is, you can miss it. You can loose it, or even simply deny it.
It just continues to be there waiting patiently for you to discover it again.
Makes you wonder if some of these ideas that people seem to feel the need to defend so vigorously, are actually the truth at all.
Love and blessings
don
2007-03-17 09:20:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think all of the above help define truth. The culture in Asia might be true to an Asian but not for me. The religions of another country might not be truth for me. A concept generally accepted as the truth in India might not be my truth,Therfore; all of the cultures, perceptions, and paredigms are things that would help define the truth to different societies.
2007-03-17 09:21:24 · answer #4 · answered by luminous 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always looked at "truth" the way Plato looked at his world of "ideal forms." Truth is the evidence of a an event, idea, perception or concept that, even seen by diversely different people with divergent viewpoints, seems to the same. For instance, if I paint a stop sign red, it is still red whether viewed by an adult, a child, a Republican, a Democrat, one person or a thousand persons. "Red" is a truth because its basic elements are scientific facts. It is a "color" that is recognized as "red" no matter who views it.
2007-03-17 09:19:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truth is like everything and nothing all at the same time. It's supposed to be what is right and good, or basically everything that is not wrong and bad. But this day in age, nobody really cares about the truth or what is right and wrong anymore, so truth is nothing. Now, the truth could be the wrong and bad stuff, yet still be considered truth.
2007-03-17 09:22:58 · answer #6 · answered by dark_forsaken_wolf 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Truth" is a quality of a symbolic statement. A statement is true to the extent that the interpretation of that statement yields an accurate portrayal of that portion of the objective universe that it claims to describe.
In order for a statement to be true it must be
a) coded in such a way that the listener can interpret it (i.e. in a language that can be understood by the hearer/reader).
b) be clearly limited in scope to apply to finite portion of reality. Generalizations do not qualify as verifiable statements unless they are always, without fail, true-- and that is impossible to prove.
c) be unambiguous. A statement that can be interpreted to mean several things actually means nothing.
d) be verifiable (at least in theory). Statements for which no theoretic mechanism exist to prove or disprove are neither true nor false, they are meaningless.
2007-03-17 09:30:17 · answer #7 · answered by mjb63114 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God is truth, Your spirit is truth, that's how you determined between truth and a lie, truth have no reservations and no hesitations, when you are true to yourself and others you
will be able to distinguish between a lie and the truth. Yes I
mean you will know when someone or something is a lie.
Truth does not discriminate between race, creed, color or ethic group.
2007-03-17 12:27:25 · answer #8 · answered by M. C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth is perceived. There is my truth, your truth, and THE truth. Our cultures definitely make a difference in my truth and your truth. Our religions make a huge difference in my truth and your truth. How we are reared makes a big difference in my truth and your truth, as well. Truth is 'what actually IS'.........how I see that and how you see that are probably entirely different from one another. We are all blinded by culture, religions, and by even our hopes.
2007-03-17 11:12:03 · answer #9 · answered by laurel g 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
truth is reality
belief is our thoughts that define our interpretations of our perspectives on reality
belief can reflect truth very closely
or it can not at all reflect it
but a thought that defines a perspective is and always will be different to the object of that perspective
2007-03-17 09:27:36 · answer #10 · answered by ewen sinclair 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth is an objective opinion in a subjective world...Truth is the most important thing in the world...It should be at least...
2007-03-17 09:23:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋