(October 30, 2015 at 8:56 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(October 30, 2015 at 8:54 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: You cannot find the true answer when you start with an answer and seek ways to validate it. To find truth you need to look at all of the solutions and potential answers.
Is this true though? Can we actually look ALL solutions and potential answers, are our minds even big enough for that? Or is one that is convincing and proven by reason sufficient without knowing all potential answers or theories as solutions out there?
A convincing statement and a true statement are two completely different things, MK, I hope you understand that. You are right that we cannot know for sure which is true, because we can't be sure we have looked at, or even thought of all of the other possibilities, that is why we have to be open to constantly question what we feel is true and submit our truth to peer scrutiny.
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