2007-11-22 13:16:53 · 14 answers · asked by David L 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Jesus said...'I AM the way, the TRUTH and the life'
2007-11-24 05:30:01 · answer #1 · answered by insert_ nickname_ here! 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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 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. This article introduces the various perspectives and claims, both today and throughout history.
Questions about what is a proper basis on which to decide how words, symbols, ideas and beliefs may properly be said to constitute truth, whether for a single person or an entire community or society, are among the many questions addressed by philosophers since aeons.
Each of the five substantive theories below deal with truth as something with a nature, a phenomenon, or thing, or type of human experience about which significant things can be said. These theories each present perspectives that are widely agreed by published scholars to apply in some way to a broad set of occurrences that can be observed in human interaction, or which offer significant, stable explanations for issues related to the idea of truth in human experience. There also have more recently arisen "deflationary" or "minimalist" theories of truth based on the idea that the application of a term like true to a statement does not assert anything significant about it, for instance, anything about its nature, but that the label truth is a tool of discourse used to express agreement, to emphasize claims, or to form certain types of generalizations.
2007-11-22 15:40:24 · answer #2 · answered by d_r_siva 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowing the mind of God is the ultimate truth. Since we share a consciousness with God, we are in possession of the Kingdom of God. To explore the beauty of this Kingdom you must look within yourself. From the moment that our souls were created, by the gift of God, the truth of all things has been within our souls waiting to be awakened. Once awakened, the Holy Spirit illuminates a path of expanded consciousness and the wisdom imparted by the Holy Spirit is innately known by the soul as truth. Each day from that moment on the Holy Spirit illuminates deeper and subtler truths which had previously escaped our understanding. Ultimately through prayer and meditation we understand that God's love is infinite and we seek nothing but reunion with our wonderful God.
2007-11-22 14:40:49 · answer #3 · answered by b_steeley 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truth is really the eternal principal of being right.
There is no ultimate truth. You either tell the truth or you lie.
The nature of truth is honesty and that is where it all begins
2007-11-22 15:50:59 · answer #4 · answered by craft painter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are "constructs" that represent the "truth" about everything. There is a universal truth about a table. There is a universal truth about happiness. There is a universal truth about the keyboard on which I am typing.
As humans, we are confined to "seeing" by using the senses we have available to us. Then of course, we interpret the thing we see based on our experiences. Therefore, we see the things as we want to see them or have been taught to see them. We develop our own perception of the thing, which isn't necessarily the truth. :)
People cannot have their "own" truths." Truths are universal. If they aren't, then they are not "truths." People have ideas, interpretations, or concepts.
Did that make sense? :)
2007-11-22 13:42:12 · answer #5 · answered by Trina™ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truth as a social symbol is only an ideal and completely unreal.
There is Truth versus deception in communication is when you are asked a question and you knowingly state the closest representation of what you experienced versus disguising, exaggerating or evading that representation.
That is the only example of truth I can fathom.
2007-11-22 13:39:50 · answer #6 · answered by @@@@@@@@ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Id say God is truth
anything else is a "truth" based on perception/emotion/bias wich gives it many versions, and subject to distortion and the ommission of certain details
2007-11-23 01:44:04 · answer #7 · answered by cleo s 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has their own truth
2007-11-22 13:24:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
for understandment, when a human does not understand he/she becomes uneasy, the basis of truth is so we have a sound foundation to turn to when we must check for understanding
2007-11-22 13:35:24 · answer #9 · answered by The Answer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'll give you my definition: truth is anything that does not defraud, deceive or mislead in any way or anything that can be validated, authenticated or verified.
2007-11-22 13:52:11 · answer #10 · answered by Daniel P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋