How to define truth
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Cheshire Cat
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I would say truth is that which conforms to reality. See also this thread: http://www.puritanboard.com/showthread.php?t=16919
panta dokimazete
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
Truth is that which is reasonably unfalsifiable.
It's seems easier to define what true is. A truth is a true statement.
One way to define true is as a quality of a statement. It is a case of having a statement which is deducible from prior true statements. But a true statement can also be assumed true without being shown true from prior statements - but from which no contradiction to other true statements can be deduced.
Logically, I think of a true statement only as it is true in relationship to other statements. And a statement can be true with regard to one statement, and false with regard to another. In that sense, the truth of a statement is relative. Is it true to with respect to reality, experience, Scripture, intuition, the axioms of Euclidean geometry, the story line of the Hobbit?
One way to define true is as a quality of a statement. It is a case of having a statement which is deducible from prior true statements. But a true statement can also be assumed true without being shown true from prior statements - but from which no contradiction to other true statements can be deduced.
Logically, I think of a true statement only as it is true in relationship to other statements. And a statement can be true with regard to one statement, and false with regard to another. In that sense, the truth of a statement is relative. Is it true to with respect to reality, experience, Scripture, intuition, the axioms of Euclidean geometry, the story line of the Hobbit?
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