The Truth, as a basis of reality

[Nathan]

Definition:

How does truth relate to reality?

Truth is the property of being in accord with fact or reality. In everyday language, truth is typically ascribed to things that aim to represent reality or otherwise correspond to it, such as beliefs, propositions, and declarative sentences. Truth is usually held to be the opposite of falsehood.

 

[Nathan]

 

[Muskrat]

However…most things are not totally without exception. Even science evolves. So…what may be assumed to be truth today may not be tomorrow.

 

[officerripley]

...[T]ruth [doesn't] mean anything without someone to share it with; you [can] shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone [doesn't] come and listen.
~~from Uprooted by Naomi Novik

 

[officerripley]

The truth does not serve man, you see...Man must serve truth.
~~from from The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North

 

[SeniorBen]

There is truth, and then there is cable "news."

 

[Nathan]

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Since all reality is individual perception, there is no absolute truth.

 

[SeniorBen]

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Some rich people tell you how rich they are. They might in fact be rich, but they're usually not as rich as they say they are.

 

[officerripley]

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power...You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.
~~from On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

 

[PeppermintPatty]

There’s absolute truth
There’s relative truth
There’s subjective truth
There’s objective truths and they all have different meanings.


There are no absolute truths in science; there are only approximate truths. Whether a statement, theory, or framework is true or not depends on quantitative factors and how closely you examine or measure the results.

Relative truth is conditional, subjective, varying and contradictory, so it's capable of changing over time. In contrast, absolute truth is consistent and eternal; its meaning is universal and never changing.

Subjective Truth is how the individual sees or experiences the world. (Today is a good day for me.) Complex Truth recognizes the validity of all those truths and allows you to focus on the one is most useful at any given time.

If something is objective, it has correspondence with reality. Objective truth is something that is true for everyone, whether they agree with it or not. At one time this was simply called “truth.”

 

[Alligatorob]

There’s absolute truth
There’s relative truth
There’s subjective truth
There’s objective truths and they all have different meanings.

Well said, and very true, or relatively true or some kind of true anyway!

I think it is absolutely true that I believe someone calling themself PeppermintPatty posted that. Or I believe it right now anyway...

 

[Bella]

 

[PeppermintPatty]

But which truth?

 

[Bella]

But which truth?

You figure it out however it suits you.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Lots of hostility here today for some reason.

 

[SeniorBen]

Lots of hostility here today for some reason.

That's a good example of subjective truth. I didn't sense any hostility, whatsoever... just a discussion.

 

[Nathan]

 

[officerripley]

"...{T}he priestly classes...never like speaking truth to power."
~~from The End of the Day by Claire North

 

[officerripley]

"...{T}ruth [doesn't] mean anything without someone to share it with; you {can} shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone {doesn't} come and listen."
~~from Uprooted by Naomi Novik

 

[Nathan]

 

[gruntlabor]

Since all reality is individual perception, there is no absolute truth.

.. and that's the absolute truth.

 

[Jamala]

“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

 

[gruntlabor]

“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. .”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

But most of these courageous individuals don't know it's a lie.

 

[Magna-Carta]

But most of these courageous individuals don't know it's a lie.

Some courageous individuals I have known have faced difficulties due to specific types of illnesses and, at times, can't help but lie. Their journey and how they navigate and cope with it seem to me to be courageous.