I encourage examining the negative side of a picture.
Something might not be true objectively, yet still remains true in someone's mind. That person wouldn't be wrong in such cases.
Can you provide an example?
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I encourage examining the negative side of a picture.
Something might not be true objectively, yet still remains true in someone's mind. That person wouldn't be wrong in such cases.
There is only truth, either something is or it isn't. Even to say "My truth" or "Your truth" makes little sense in my opinion. Rather one should refer to it as "my situation" or "your situation".Often, including on RF, I hear people use phrases like, "your truth," "my truth," "true for me," "true for you," and so on.
Is truth individual? Or is it independent of us as individuals?
Like religious beliefs. The religion may not be true, but the belief itself is.Can you provide an example?
Yes. But what we think about it, is relative to the group using a shared frame of reference, or rather filters through which we perceive and interpret that reality.
The "truth" of whatever that "it" is, does not exist indepently. The "fact" of it, the "in itself" cannot be known to us directly, but is only interpreted for us through our subjective, or collectively subjective filters, i.e., language and culture. And that we call "truth".
Like religious beliefs. The religion may not be true, but the belief itself is.
Normally, each of us has or had a mother. That is a fact that can only be said to be dependent on us with considerable difficulty. It is, I affirm, a universal truth.Is truth individual? Or is it independent of us as individuals?
Its the belief of and in itself that is true. (Subjective) Not the substance of that belief. (Objective)I don't understand, sorry. If my religion teaches that the world was created 6,000 years ago, and that's false, then my belief in that teaching is also false, right?
Its the belief of and in itself that is true. (Subjective)
Often, including on RF, I hear people use phrases like, "your truth," "my truth," "true for me," "true for you," and so on.
Is truth individual? Or is it independent of us as individuals?
We can know something exists directly, but we cannot say we know what that something actually is, objectively speaking. What we think about it, is mediated through language and culture.That's an interesting thought. But that it exists can be known to us directly, yes?
Like many words, "truth" is polysemic or holds several different meanings depending on context and culture. That variation is going to heavily determine now one processes this question. What sort of "truth" are we talking about?
We cannot say that what I am petting is a "cat" in true objective reality, for instance. We experience that "something" as a "cat" because that is how our subjective minds have be trained to perceive it. In reality, it's not a cat. It's just a collection of energies we call "cat". But that does not in any sense define its objective reality independent of how we perceive it.
A cat doesn't know it's a cat. It just exists as itself, independent of what we think it is. The reality of the cat to God, is not the reality of a cat to a human, for instance. It's perceptions all the way up, and all the way down.
Usually I use the term truth to mean, "reality," or at least, "corresponding to reality." If you use a different definition, feel free to explain.
Facts are truth, aren't they? What makes facts facts is that they're true, right?
What is reality to us, is subjectively interpreted. What one person calls reality, is not necessarily reality to another. Examples are countless.Usually I use the term truth to mean, "reality," or at least, "corresponding to reality." If you use a different definition, feel free to explain.
Facts are truth
Yes. But 'truth' is not always fact. For instance, at one time the sun revolving around the earth was the accepted truth. However, this was not factual. As more facts are learned, truth changes.
Blimmin eck we just posted this simultaneously.Yes. But 'truth' is not always fact. For instance, at one time the sun revolving around the earth was the accepted truth. However, this was not factual. As more facts are learned, truth changes.
Did it used to be a fact that the sun orbited the Earth?