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What is "TRUTH"?
What makes something "TRUE" or equal to "THE TRUTH"?
A) Someone's personal opinions
B) Scientific proof
C) Something else....?
I will add poll!..
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Truth is usually defined by 'philosophers' as "a statement corresponding to reality"... but how, or in what way, does anyone ever verify the correspondence without ultimately relying on their own subjective sensory system?
Truth = proof = opinion validated by the limited, subjective sensory system.
btw.. is this reasonable conclusion "true"? NO! Because I did not use my sensory system even once to figure it out. This conclusion can be reached via conceptual analysis alone. It is a "reasonable" or "rational" conclusion... not a "true" one.
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wisedom
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Correspondence to the state of things as they are, however this may be established.
"This is not my time; this is not my world; these are not my people." - Martin H. Francis
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The bible
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C) However you define it; not dictated by state-organized dogma nor from another person's perception. Only you can necessitate that meaning through your own volition.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
- H.P. Lovecraft
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Regarding synthetic statements, this is ultimately correct, but with a fair degree of certainty, we can regard this fact as a mere philosophical technicality. The predictive power of our theories about natural world is probably the strongest evidence, that we are able to reach the correct conclusions through our reasoning.Originally Posted by ApollonianGerm
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In theory the absolute truth is an indisputably valid argument. As it has been previously said, all of these are filtered down the human mind and are thus altered by subjectivity. In this state the human cannot express truth in its entirely absolute unaltered nature. There is only one single Truth, but there are infinite lies, falsehoods, some are closer to the truth and some are extremely far from it.
We are not able to touch this absolute truth because of our human condition but we can try to stray as little as we can from this Truth.
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