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[top-politics] Re: Truth
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Hey,
It’s interesting that by trying to propose a simpler approach of truth that allowed for a constructive and practical debate, we end up with a debate between truth being either something relative or on the opposite something somewhat religious or faith-based (when faith has countless times opposed reason in the search of truth).
Here’s an example – the solar system:
- Antiquity: first attempts at trying to figuring out what’s what with the fireball in the sky, some say we turn around it, other that it turns around us, the latter win the argument and the ptolemaic view remains the dominating one for a while.
- Copernicus, Galileo: Proof that we do turn around the sun
- results: gravity is discovered, eventually planes are built, relativity discovered, and satellites sent into space. How? Relying on elements of reality that we have come to understand with a degree of truth important enough to allow us to successfully master some aspects of the aforementionned reality.
Now I hope this clarify what is meant by truth as an optimum of understanding of reality. I also hope this post won’t serve as a basis for a renewed abstract discussion, which has gone on for centuries between philosophers and will probably go on forever. If we could accept that there are things that are true (earth goes around the sun) and some that aren’t (earth is flat) beyond any doubt, then maybe we can use the word truth when talking for example about information feeding into a TOP deliberation with a common constructive understanding of what is meant.
Best regards,
Serge
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At 07:59 PM 9/13/2006, Serge wrote: >It’s interesting that by trying to propose a simpler approach of truth >that allowed for a constructive and practical debate, we end up with a >debate between truth being either something relative or on the opposite >something somewhat religious or faith-based (when faith has countless >times opposed reason in the search of truth).
That was not “faith.” That was “belief.” Big difference. Huge difference. “Faith” that opposes reason is not faith, it is, in fact, denial. The very opposite of faith.
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