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aniiess · Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 41

What is truth Question

Truth is always paradoxical Question

::NiCE:: · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 54

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened... Confused

Bob S. · Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 1767 Location: So. Cal

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,�that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'

John Keats (1795�1821)
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Someone was going to say it eventually.

admiral · Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posts: 546

Truth is when everybody say something is right.
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aniiess · Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 41

Half a truth is often a great lie

NanaimoGirl · Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 48 Location: Nanaimo

God is the creator of evil.

scipio · Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 55 Location: spaced out

aniiess · Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 41

"Philosophers are interested in a constellation of issues involving the concept of truth. A preliminary issue, although somewhat subsidiary, is to decide what sorts of things can be true. Is truth a property of sentences (which are linguistic entities in some language or other), or is truth a property of propositions (nonlinguistic, abstract and timeless entities)? The principal issue is: What is truth? It is the problem of being clear about what you are saying when you say some claim or other is true. The most important theories of truth are the Correspondence Theory, the Semantic Theory, the Deflationary Theory, the Coherence Theory, and the Pragmatic Theory. They are explained and compared here. Whichever theory of truth is advanced to settle the principal issue, there are a number of additional issues to be addressed:

1. Can claims about the future be true now?
2. Can there be some algorithm for finding truth � some recipe or procedure for deciding, for any claim in the system of, say, arithmetic, whether the claim is true?
3. Can the predicate "is true" be completely defined in other terms so that it can be eliminated, without loss of meaning, from any context in which it occurs?
4. To what extent do theories of truth avoid paradox?
5. Is the goal of scientific research to achieve truth? "
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ebb · Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 87 Location: USA

"Everyone knows that the goal of scientific research is the same as the goal of poetry: to woo women." Figmund Shraude , but falsely attributed to Robin Williams in one of his weaker moments.
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X-files · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 11 Location: Italy

Only the governamentes know the truth, I think this, buth the day is now very far.
And remember "The truth is out there"
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The truth is out there..

Zlaty · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 19 Location: lodi

The truth is me
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nirvanapaul · Joined: 01 Jul 2006 Posts: 3

truth is like the time... doesn't exist...
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earth is a fading flower...nevermind at least today

4yuan · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 19 Location: CHINA---SHANGHAI

One fact only has one truth.
Truth is to prove hypothese is correct.
Truth is to find out who is criminal.
Truth can tell you truth.

::NiCE:: · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 54

truth crushed to earth will rise again ...
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Mallaien · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:48 pm Post subject:

By Philip K. D Author of many books. (last name is being filterd)