RE: Is there objective Truth?
October 24, 2016 at 11:56 am
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2016 at 11:58 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(October 24, 2016 at 11:44 am)Tazzycorn Wrote:(October 13, 2016 at 3:24 pm)Napoléon Wrote: What is truth?
Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all,
Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
The truth is that which corresponds to reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspond...y_of_truth
(Feel free to disagree but the correspondence theory of truth makes by far the most sense IMO... I also think it's the theory most lay people in practice presuppose without even realizing or knowing about it. Most people see truth this way, I'd wager).
This then begs the question "What is that which corresponds to reality?... well it's anything that is existent. So we start by defining existence itself. Ontology is more fundamental than epistemology by many people skip it and this is why you have the inanity of people equivocating between different models of 'existence' or 'reality' when they're trying to know and understand existence and reality. Agree on a definition of existence and reality and it would make all the debating about epistemology, or how we can know that reality, a whole lot easier.