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- How Exactly Do You Define Truth? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Well, the truth itself is the way things are, and like you're saying, there isn't so much we can do to further define that It just is But there's a second consideration, which is that humans make claims about the way things are These claims may be considered as sequences of characters, or noises, or perhaps patterns of mental activity And we call some of these claims true, and other claims
- logic - What is the difference between Fact and Truth? - Philosophy . . .
Truth is what the singer gives to the listener when she’s brave enough to open up and sing from her heart But still curious about the difference between both of them In our daily life, in general conversation, we generally use these both terms interchangeably Then what is the difference? Are they synonym or have specific difference?
- What is the philosophical difference between Reality and Truth?
Truth is a property of propositions, mostly propositions claiming facts Hence truth lives in a completely different domain "It rains today" is a proposition which claims a fact The proposition can be true or false On the other hand, facts are not true or false Instead, they are or they are not See also What is the difference between Fact
- Can truth exist without language? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
5 "Whether truth can exist without language" and "that truth is an objective reality that exists independently of us" are not opposed claims, although they don't imply one another A Platonist would tell you that language, like other mental objects, exists in the ideal realm whether people are around to think about it or not
- logic - The absolute truth paradox - Philosophy Stack Exchange
"There is no absolute truth because we as humans are restrained from ever knowing it" is fallacious, what humans can know imposes no restriction on what is And "this" will only be a way out of the paradox after it specifies which axioms of classical logic are supposed to be dropped, and shows that what is left is enough and otherwise reasonable There are several options described in standard
- logic - Is finding truth possible? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Finding truths is definitely possible, finding important truths harder; finding all important truths is much, much harder, and maybe impossible except for the truly enlightened - and these people are rare
- Is there such a thing as absolute proof? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Rubbish Truth and wisdom are inseparable, questions and truth are inseparable How could you even ask a meaningful question without beginning from some truth? What meaning does "wisdom" have without reference to some truth?
- How can we attain ‘truth’ if all we can do is justification?
OP: " How can we attain ‘truth’ if all we can do is justification? " This comes down to the idea that there are historically two forms of truth: the truth of the pre-Socratics and that of the Platonists For the pre-Socratics the truth is what is, as presented, whereas for the Platonists truth means the correspondence of the presented form with its idea — or in the OP's terms its
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