what is true?
meditate on this one before you answer.
If you are someone searching for this, you may have to ask yourself what is it your'e actually looking for, I'm not looking for "true" as stated in the dictionary, what is your "true". you have to take into account that what's true for one isn't true for another, and true can't be an opinion. I have been wondering about this for a while, and "true" doesn't seem to exist. sure there's truth, but that's not the same thing, It's a personal aspect of true, I'm wondering about a universal "true". what I'm asking realy is, is destroying a question the only way to solve it?
2007-09-07 15:38:13 · 21 answers · asked by Donaldo P 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
emm...true??you lost me
2007-09-07 15:47:14 · answer #1 · answered by LOON W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'The true' as opposed to 'the truth'?
The truth is quite a simple concept. If a proposition agrees with the facts it is true ('true' here being an adjective and not your noun) and the collection of all true statments is 'the truth'. There is nothing subjective in the concept of truth (it talks of:
1. Facts, ie objective states of affairs
2. Propositions
Not about people, intelligent entities, observers etc. There is only one 'the truth'.
Its a very simple concept: but horrendously difficult to find particular true statements, know that they are true statements and distinguish them from false statements.
The search for truth may be difficult but it is important. If we want to solve a problem we must search for the truth about it. That someone is starving may not be "the true", but so long as it is 'the truth' then it follows that if that person does not get food they will die. It may not be "the true" that they will die, but it is "the truth".
Now the search for objective truth ('the truth') as opposed to 'the true' is so difficult and so important I'm afraid I don't have any time to search for 'the true'.
2007-09-07 21:45:25 · answer #2 · answered by anthonypaullloyd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im searching to find what I am . Be that the 'true' me I don't know. The problem with any search of this nature its a one way trip. There is no going back to what you were before you started. I don't think you need to destroy the question but I think you have to pick at it and even to a point dissect it but you need to be able to put it back together to be able to answer it. Nothing is what it seems nor it black and white. A simple question can have many levels if you are prepared to look!
2007-09-08 04:29:55 · answer #3 · answered by Psycho Chicken! 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truth must exist surely? What is true can't change. My door is brown, that is true no matter what you believe. My mum is dead, that is true even if you don't believe it. That's the point really, truth is still true even if nobody believes it, and a lie is a lie even if everybody believes it. It is absolute.
(I'm a Christian and have found Jesus to be the truth)
Not sure about your thing on destroying a question.
2007-09-09 00:55:50 · answer #4 · answered by good tree 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Share: True can be relative and absolute.
Destroying a question is not the only way to solve it. Look around, so many religions, beliefs and -isms. Be patient in trying other ways as you are in this way. You might find meditation without objects relaxing.
2007-09-14 06:24:37 · answer #5 · answered by emilights 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you seem to be saying is "Are there universal qualities that exist outside outselves?" Not just truth, but beauty (and probably a few others I can't think of). This is a question that has exercised philosophers for centuries. One that, as an atheist, I have been struggling to answer. There is both truth and beauty in the fundamental mathematics of existence. But where do they come from?
2007-09-07 18:43:29 · answer #6 · answered by Andrew L 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know how you separate "truth" from "true." That doesn't make sense to me. Also I don't understand how you can think that the only way to solve something is to destroy it.
There are many truths. I know and understand my truth. I can try to appreciate yours or utterly reject you truth if I find it offensive.
Not sure I know what it is you are asking.
2007-09-15 10:15:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well one 'true' is that I do not liking others telling me what to do as you must mediate before answering.
Anyway, I will hang with those that our searching for the truth and avoid like the plague those who have found it.
2007-09-07 16:24:47 · answer #8 · answered by Richard15 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not need to meditate on this, it is an easy question.
In order to find your 'true' you have to combine your three ego states. this is your conscious self, your sub-conscious self, and your high self. That is the only way you will ever find your 'true.'
2007-09-12 11:09:50 · answer #9 · answered by william_wraithe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truthfully, I think thats true.the question is true if you believe it if not then the truth behind what you are looking for is beyond you reach.
2007-09-07 20:36:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As beautify is in the eye of the beholder, truth is in the soul of the wonder.
2007-09-14 23:15:15 · answer #11 · answered by Mogollon Dude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋