TRUTH and TRUE
Truth is a belief that each person has
about right and wrong. If a person knows something to
be true they are implying that in their opinion they
believe it to be true. When a person knows right from
wrong, like black from white, they should be able to
tell a truth from a lie or true from false, but as life
teaches everyone, between black and white are shades of
each other “the gray area.” Different people have
different opinions on the value of truth or how to
measure truth. For one person to get another person to
believe in their truth they might have to have proved
that their opinion can be proofed with common reason.
The two people with a common opinion and proof that
their opinion was based on facts could conclude it as
true. If 100 people got together and listen to the same
facts, they could and possibly would, come away with
different opinions of how truthful the facts were, and
possibly facts of their own to prove a different truth.
When true and truth is based on opinion, there is
always the “human factor” where opinion is based on
knowledge and belief.
A person can state a fact to his neighbor
that is known to be true, because they agree. Then he
can use that same fact when talking to his other
neighbor and find out that it is not true anymore. With
that we can say that there are different truths for the
same thing in different areas. Without a known baseline
(reliable, accepted starting point) for something to be
true
To make something true as a fact, it would
have to be accepted and able to be proofed as the
truth, the same every time. Each time, when proofed,
the outcome would have to be the same, or close enough
to the same, within an acceptable limit, to be
considered the same.
Human nature and truth seem to always be in
conflict. From the very simple to religious truth,
human nature seems to take over and challenge any
truth. Without scientific or factual proof that
something is true and that it can be repeated human
nature will always challenge and disprove it as fiction
or at least an “un-truth.” When we hear that something
is true or a fact, the first thing that we want to do
as humans, is to challenge it as a fact and try to
disprove it.
Religion is an absolute truth to some
people even though there is not any scientific proof.
To prove to someone, that their truth or belief is not
true, can be just as hard as proving that your truth or
belief has foundation. Truth for personal belief is
interpretive by the believer and since there is no
foundation for a common belief for everyone in the
world, there seems many different beliefs that are
held as truths for their believers.
PART TWO
While doing research for the second part of my truth
paper I looked on the Web for books and authors to
investigate. What I did find is a wealth of things to
use for this paper, even though we were to find and
site from a source other than the Web. I did find some
reading and a lot of background information. I have to
share one that I found. From the web site of Digital
Text International, (a site of on line books) this is
from the author Alfred Tarski, “To say of what is that
it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false,
while to say of what is that it is, or of what is not
that it is not, is true.” [1] I guess that means that
if something is true it is true and if something is not
true it is not true. That guy is smart to say it that
way.
In the world today we are told a lot of things that are
true, or so we are told. As intelligent people we need
to look at what we are told to be true and challenge
ourselves to seek out the truth as we learn, or else we
will believe too many truths that are false or a shade
of truth. When used to define a judgment or belief, the
meaning of true is, or can be different for different
people. Depending on the range and the depth of
background information that is used to prove a truth,
there is always personal interpretation that will have
an impact on how much people will believe to be true.
We as humans use the thought process to reason truth
from fiction. The one common way to prove that
something is true is through science and math. Once we
are out of the realm of science or math then we have to
rely on ourselves to figure what is true.
I’m not real deep but this sounds like it fits for the
way I see how to find out if something is true.
“Philosophy means the love of truth, not love of words,
not love of ideas, not love of speculations, but the
love of truth. And that means you have to find for
yourself where reality is and that reality cannot
become truth. You cannot go through reality to come to
truth .you must understand the limitations of reality,
which is the whole process of thought. You know, when
you look into yourself, knowing your consciousness,
what are your motives, what your purposes are, your
beliefs, your intensions, your pretensions, what your
imaginations are, all that is your consciousness; and
that consciousness essentially is the consciousness of
the world.”[2]
The love of truth is how I see myself, but I also know
that what I believe as true is not what another person
knows as true. For me, that is ok, that is what makes
people different.