2007-08-03 06:06:06 · 12 answers · asked by Nickel-for-your-thoughts 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Facts can be manipulated for example if you're an automobile manufacturer and suddenly you now have to start looking at building electric cars you can conduct a survey that says 60% of our customer don't want electric cars but the Truth is when folks interviewed people the first thing they did was tell them all the things wrong with the electric car. So even though they had the facts it didn't represent the truth.
2007-08-03 06:34:46 · answer #1 · answered by Owl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The facts exist apart from anyone knowing them. Truth is the conscious recognition of the facts. The facts of biological evolution for example existed long before there was anyone who could know the truth concerning those facts. The objective fact can precede knowledge of the truth. But knowing the truth concerning particular facts obviously cannot precede the existence of the facts themselves. Once the truth is discovered however, there is only a shade of gray between the truth concerning the facts, and the facts themselves. The difference become philosophical rather than practical.
2007-08-03 06:26:28 · answer #2 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, in my Oxford American Dictionary it says:
Fact: thing that is indisputably the case
Truth: something that is in the quality or state of being true.
A fact or belief that is accepted as being true.
Since truth can be a belief, what is a truth to one is not a truth to another. Therefore, truth is relative, whereas facts can be proved correct with research, experiments, and much testing.
2007-08-03 06:17:29 · answer #3 · answered by Lina 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Facts are boring, dreary little things that can be proven by simple observation. The sky is blue. Cats eat mice. A bridge collapsed the other day. Basic stuff, no real room for debate.
Truth, on the other hand, is a technical term refering to one of two potential values of a statement when evaluated within a given system of axioms and rules. (The other value, of course, is False.) Since there are many different systems under which a statement can be evaluated, the value of a statement may differ depending upon who's doing the evaluating, leading to endless debates on the nature of god, the creation of the universe, moral and ethical questions, and the like.
2007-08-03 06:15:46 · answer #4 · answered by stmichaeldet 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Facts are pieces of information presented as being true, though they should be verifiable by an independent source. Because they can be presented as being true, yet be not-true, they are on a relatively low tier of "understanding.' Truth carries something in the nature of explanation, and should be verifiable by independent source. Truth carries a much higher level of understanding.
2007-08-03 06:12:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
A fact is something that is indisputable and can not be debated. Truth is what you know personally in your heart
2007-08-03 06:23:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
facts will bring you to the truth.
2007-08-03 06:17:22 · answer #7 · answered by YUHATEME 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The difference is in the beholder and so it is very subjective for both of them.
Since many, if not most, people on earth do not desire to believe in ABSOLUTES, these word can mean anything anyone wants them to mean.
2007-08-03 06:30:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. If something is truth it is fact. Subjective truth or subjective facts are nonsense.
2007-08-03 06:11:14 · answer #9 · answered by Tom :: Athier than Thou 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Each is usually something someone told someone else, and that whomever they told believed it and told someone else ad infinium.
Truth sometimes takes a different route.
2007-08-03 06:12:15 · answer #10 · answered by Jack P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋