2007-04-07 16:40:54 · 11 answers · asked by Geets18 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
This is a very, very deep question which the greatest minds in history have grappled with and yet it still isn't resolved to everyone's satisfaction.
According to many, truth is a correspondence between "the world" and our ideas ABOUT the world. When our minds mirror "reality," correctly, our ideas/beliefs are "true."
Others argue that we can never really get outside ourselves and compare our ideas to "the way things REALLY are".. no one has that god's-eye kind of view. Our ideas about what's true are very historically and culturally contingent. Truth is instead, they argue "what is good in the way of belief" (James). Saying "that's true" is a sort of compliment we pay to propositions that seem to be working out for us. (Rorty) If it produces desirable results - over the long haul - it's "true".. it's the best we've got for the time being until circumstances change again.
2007-04-07 17:39:56 · answer #1 · answered by Matt 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think truth is FULL & TOTAL DISCLOSURE. It means No Omitting, or just telling half of the facts. Its revealing all of the information. It Requires Honesty.
In a more technical & scientific answer, I think that the truth is the overall combination of collecting all the information and research data to gain the best and most accurate possible reason & answer to explain in an intellegent & rational way a question and is backed up & supported by the results of the findings and agreed and accepted by the majority.
That said; like science it can be conceptual and a perception. Its all in how you interpet the information, but it still reverts back to the top of my answer... Full & Total Disclosure, and then its up to the reciever of the information wether they want to accept that as fact or just speculation.
I take a quote from Ronald Reagan - "Trust, but Verify". You need to take all the information that you have been given and compare it to what you know to make an educated and logical conclusion.
2007-04-08 10:05:29 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truth is when the receiver accepts the presented data and information is acceptable within their interpretation and resources available to them at that moment.
All evidence is accurate only relative to data available. That's why a light turned on at sunset is dim but will be bright in the middle of the night.
A full moon does nothing to illuminate the streets of a city but allows great detail to be seen in the desert.
What one person sees as a lie might be anothers means of providing solace to someone in distress.
Nothing can be absolute truth until all aspects and influences of the issue are known and fully understood and it agrees with our culture or circumstances.
So technically Truth is a point of view based on the resources and understanding of the acceptor' i.e. making a it correct fact in their perception of reality. Just as correctly, since you have different resources it may remain a point of view.
We both interpret the light frequency of a color. But the intellectual presentation of my yellow interpretation may be identical to your intellectual presentation of blue. I think that's why people have different preferences of colors and their use.
2007-04-08 02:28:29 · answer #3 · answered by Caretaker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends...some truth is a cold hard fact and others are based off opinions that were proven for the most part. Like how they say its a fact that a sentence has a subject and a predicate. Or no two snowflakes are the same. A person created the idea of subj. and predicate and the rules behind it. And its impossible to have examined every snowflake that has ever fallen to teh earth. It depends on what you believe in. Most of us believe in different truths anyways; Like the truth of God
2007-04-07 23:51:29 · answer #4 · answered by angel 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The correct fact. "Just another point of view" is merely an opinion, and opinions are not factual. Therefore, they are not truths.
2007-04-07 23:58:46 · answer #5 · answered by M2 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There are few if any universal truths. Truths are a personal matter, everyone determines their own. Someone may state an apparent truth, however if it becomes your truth, it is because of your agreement not because it was a truth in its essence.
2007-04-08 02:10:34 · answer #6 · answered by stedyedy 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Truth is that which cannot be honestly denied.
What you will find however is that people will be dishonest themselves just to deny a fact they don't like.
2007-04-08 00:26:58 · answer #7 · answered by Mottled Dove 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is absolute truth and other things are subjected to place,time,social&moral values of that society/nation.
2007-04-09 13:05:22 · answer #8 · answered by laxmi kumar n 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Facts are truth, rest is speculations, interpretations etc etc.
2007-04-07 23:51:11 · answer #9 · answered by Sharad 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Truth is everything opposite of untruth...
2007-04-07 23:46:10 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋