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What is truth?

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RevealingSkirt
Posts: 528 - Karma: 62
We are doing a project/paper from school, and I'm going to take a new spin on it.
Basically, I'd like everyone to answer, in the least amount of words possible, what "truth" is, or how you find it, or what defines it.

Essentially you're answering one of these questions:
"What is truth?"
"How do you find truth?"
"What defines truth?"

IN AS LEAST AMOUNT OF WORDS AS POSSIBLE.
And being clever/witty/philosoraptorical/oxymoronic is even better.
 +K for everyone who helps!
Nov 16 2010 2:30PM
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RubberSoul
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no such thing. you can only make your best guesses based on experience and brains
Nov 16 2010 2:31PM
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Ski_the_east01
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Nov 16 2010 2:32PM
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SteveStepp
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One might argue that the only real "truth" is what you experience through your senses, or "reality".


The opposing view to that might be psychedelic drug use or the philosophical "brain in a vat/The Matrix" concept.
Nov 16 2010 2:36PM
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thugaim
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10/10
Nov 16 2010 2:37PM
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RevealingSkirt
Posts: 528 - Karma: 62
We has a winrar.
Nov 16 2010 2:53PM
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Aenigma
Posts: 11256 - Karma: 424
I am the truth.
Nov 16 2010 3:15PM
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Stickity
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The Truth is a rollerblading dvd
Nov 16 2010 3:17PM
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Yack
Posts: 79 - Karma: 85
Truth is that which pertains to reality

this is a legit definiton, did a whole semester of it last year in school
Nov 16 2010 11:12PM
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.AR6rider.
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But seriously...what everyone else said.

Nov 16 2010 11:15PM
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vailsux.com
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Absolute truth exists, but cannot be known.
Nov 16 2010 11:19PM
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ataraxia
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Empiricism. Where one believes they can only obtain truth from what their senses perceive. I agree more with the skeptic view. Sextus Empiricus is definitely someone to look up if you want more info. He basically feels that although we may sense something that is there, we will never know what it "truly" is due to our perceptions interacting with "filters" from our environment. Therefore he feels we should withhold our judgement and not deem any sort of sensory perception "true."





Nov 16 2010 11:22PM
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p-fo
Posts: 9372 - Karma: 6,155
The truth is reality. Reality is no more than what we make of it. We can be so convinced of something that we cannot be budged one bit from that belief. Two plus two can equal five if we truly believe it. We can never be sure of reality, and so, by definition, the truth. I call it the Reality Paradox. Truth by its dictionary definition is impossible. Thus, the truth is the current majority opinion. An opinion and nothing more.


i wrote an essay on 1984 last year dealing a lot with this reality paradox idea.
Nov 16 2010 11:23PM
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swednor10
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not counting any religious or biblical reasoning to what truth is, i believe truth is what your inner self is telling you.it is a personal state of mind.

Nov 29 2010 5:16PM
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