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Is there objective Truth?
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Is there objective Truth?
Is there ultimate, immaterial, Universal, objective truth? Objective truth would not be persuaded by authority figures, but rather dictated by nature. And while we may never achieve 100% truth during the human experience, the goal is to be as close to the truth as possible.

Or... is truth subjective. And we determine how sure we are via confidence levels. Truth is persuaded by authority figures, and dictaded as such.

Recources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth
http://www.debate.org/opinions/is-truth-objective

Not making a claim just yet, although it should be obvious what the answer is. What are your opinions? Smile
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#2
RE: Is there objective Truth?
As near as we can tell yes, at least empirically speaking.
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RE: Is there objective Truth?
(October 13, 2016 at 3:21 pm)Soldat Du Christ Wrote: Is there ultimate, immaterial, Universal, objective truth? Objective truth would not be persuaded by authority figures, but rather dictated by nature. And while we may never achieve 100% truth during the human experience, the goal is to be as close to the truth as possible.

Or... is truth subjective. And we determine how sure we are via confidence levels. Truth is persuaded by authority figures, and dictaded as such.

Recources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth
http://www.debate.org/opinions/is-truth-objective

Not making a claim just yet, although it should be obvious what the answer is. What are your opinions? Smile


Then no.
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#4
RE: Is there objective Truth?
A good starting point would be to define how you're using 'truth.' Linking us to a list of its history of uses doesn't really help as a starting point.

If your definition of truth is merely "a reality that exists independent of the minds perceiving it." Then I'd say yes. But again you have to define this stuff.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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#5
RE: Is there objective Truth?
What is truth?
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#6
RE: Is there objective Truth?
What's an example of objective truth?
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RE: Is there objective Truth?
@OP
IDK. If there is, I don't possess it and have never seen it expressed.
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RE: Is there objective Truth?
(October 13, 2016 at 3:24 pm)Napoléon Wrote: What is truth?

Baby don't hurt me?
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Is there objective Truth?
(October 13, 2016 at 3:21 pm)Soldat Du Christ Wrote: Is there ultimate, immaterial, Universal, objective truth? Objective truth would not be persuaded by authority figures, but rather dictated by nature. And while we may never achieve 100% truth during the human experience, the goal is to be as close to the truth as possible.

People's opinions about the Principle of Non-Contradiction usually serve as bell-weathers for how they will answer. Some will say that it is a rule of thought contingent on evolved mental abilities and as such not certain. Some say that it only describes empirical experience. My own opinion is that the PNC is non-contingent and proscriptive absolute. As such it would count as objective truth.
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RE: Is there objective Truth?
@Whateverist, do you not believe that non material things exist? For example gravity? Mathematics? Laws of logic? Truth is fact, by definition. Do you not believe in facts? These are all in fact immaterial.

@Irrational, see above. If all the vessels capable of interpretation disapeared, these immaterial laws would still govern the universe.

@FatAndFaithless, "conformity with fact or reality" source below. My apologies i should have been more clear Smile

Recources:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...h-excerpt/
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/truth
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