Can anyone tell me what the ancient rule of establishing a truth was? From 4000BC to approx 100 AD there was a rule in ancient scocieties for establishing a truth, can anyone tell me what it was?
2007-08-20 07:36:10 · 9 answers · asked by ImJstBob 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am pleased with the responses however i was hoping for some more. I believe one person caught me as I was attempting to get a specific answer from some (actually she knew I had an answer I was hoping for). I loved the Wili definition I got from one responder (lots of stuff there for research, and I never thought of googleing my question)
But like a few of my friends replied I am of course a "2 or 3 witnesses" sort of bloke. You see It is for the Christian a established law in the most ancient of Hebrew philosophy, and carried forward by Jesus to the Judeo-Christian. This is also called "emperic" evidence of a truth and is based on the factual observation of a specfic thing or event by more than one person, experienced by the 5 sences, and coroborated by each other. Emperic truth can be called absolute truth -vs- relevant truth.
I'll leave the question to roll over to a vote, and thanks to all that answered
C'iao B
2007-08-21 08:35:49 · update #1
God is the truth and reality
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
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Humans catch a small glimpse of a tiny sliver of all that is of God.
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Ecclesiastes 3:11
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
2007-08-22 11:36:37 · answer #1 · answered by cordsoforion 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some cultures believed in the witness of 2-3 or more. Some left it up to their councils/elders.
2007-08-20 18:04:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Established in the Greek or Seleucid Empire?
2007-08-20 14:45:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ah, but what exactly is truth? The philosophers have been chewing that bone for a long time now... with no end in sight.
2007-08-20 17:18:39 · answer #4 · answered by Mike H. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the society.....there were a great many "tests" but it depends on the culture you're asking for.
Or is this one of those "You allready have the answer that you think is right and want to test us" questions?
2007-08-20 14:43:12 · answer #5 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
The witness of two or more?
2007-08-20 14:44:44 · answer #6 · answered by wondermus 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Two or more witnesses.
2007-08-20 15:03:34 · answer #7 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
2007-08-20 14:55:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
“To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true” - Aristotle
2007-08-20 14:58:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋