To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, --unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing." This is truth, to me.
2007-09-19 23:30:39 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The meaning of the word truth extends from honesty, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular. The term has no single definition about which the majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree. Various theories of truth, usually involving different definitions, continue to be debated. There are differing claims on such questions as what constitutes truth; how to define and identify truth; the roles that revealed and acquired knowledge play; and whether truth is subjective, relative, objective, or absolute.
To me, truth has more than one meaning and isn't something specific....
2007-09-19 23:42:46 · answer #1 · answered by Werty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real."
"And, at the same time, --unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing.""
what a contradiction!! what you set out to criticize , the next sentence you do the same thing. your notion of truth too is foggy. not that anything wrong with it, afterall describing truth must surely come in the domain of philosophy , and thus it will be foggy.
2007-09-20 07:26:10 · answer #2 · answered by tony 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth is something that was proven and was accepted as being true. If someone said "this is true" without any further evidence or proof, that's just ignorance. All they're doing is making a conjecture and nothing else.
Definition:
In philosophy, the property of statements, thoughts, or propositions that are said, in ordinary discourse, to agree with the facts or to state what is the case. At least four major types of truth theory have been proposed: correspondence theories (see realism), coherence theories (see coherentism, idealism), pragmatic theories (see pragmatism), and deflationary theories. The latter group encompasses a wide variety of views, including the redundancy theory, the disquotation theory, and the prosentential theory.
2007-09-20 11:53:34 · answer #3 · answered by Reaper 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An interesting question!
Truth had been conceived as an objective relation, as once good and beauty had been. Now, what if truth, like these were also relative to human judgment and human needs? Natural laws had been taken as objective truths, external and unchangeable. Spinoza had made them the very substanceof his philosophy and yet what were these truths but formulations of experience, convenient and succesful in practice, not copies of an object, but correct calculations of specific consequences? Truth is the cash-value of an idea.
Have a nice day!
2007-09-20 07:28:52 · answer #4 · answered by Third P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That sounds as reasonable as anything else.
Being more of a 'physical reality' kind of guy, I tend to think of the truth as something that reflects 'reality' (whatever that means). But there can be a lot of interpretations of the same 'reality' by a lot of different people so even that can get a bit sticky at times. And when it comes to sorting out feelings, emotions, etc. all bets are off.
Doug
2007-09-20 06:59:12 · answer #5 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth is that what your knowledge, study & research, experience, rational explanations, scientifically provan facts may make you accept it.
And not what you have been told with out any above base. Truth is a myth till it is busted by a valid fact which in turn stands alone till it produces an undenyable proof.
2007-09-20 06:53:59 · answer #6 · answered by handful_01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth, in the subjective sense, is the explanation one believes best represents the surrounding Universe.
Truth, in the objective sense, is just a simple word used to impose one's opinions on others.
2007-09-20 06:40:38 · answer #7 · answered by Dire Badger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
truth is that which sets us free from bondage of sin. and there is only one truth and that is Jesus Christ. no one said with such great authority as Jesus did. "I am the Way the Truth and the Life". "No one cometh unto the Father except by Me." people in His time were astonished at His doctrine as He spake with authority and not as the scribes.
even if this answer gets a billion thumbs down, seek the Truth that will set you free from sin coz the wages of sin is death...the gift of God is eternal life. believe me, am not in any illusion of any sort or under the influence of any drug.
2007-09-20 08:21:24 · answer #8 · answered by Chief of sinners 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
truth to me is a statement, which in time and motion, happened---and nothing inbetween. It is the written history of your past and present- you can't tell truth of the future, because we don't know what is to come.
2007-09-23 11:28:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe that we chose whats true by interest.couse we cant never know if something its true or not,and i believe that truth its relative.something that its true naw,one day it might be not.
2007-09-20 15:04:20 · answer #10 · answered by her 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋