(June 5, 2016 at 8:29 am)mh.brewer Wrote:(June 5, 2016 at 7:52 am)SteveII Wrote: According to Aristotle, “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.” Aristotle laid out the condition for when something is true and did not try to define "truth".
Truth is a property of a sentence or proposition. "The book is on the table" is true only if there is a book and a table and the books relationship to the table is that it sits upon it. The statement is not true if any of these conditions do not exist.
Perhaps the problem is using the term truth as a synonym for belief. It is not.
So, no, a fact cannot change the truth of a statement. If a new fact changes our understanding of a statement, the original statement was never true. Truth is neither subjective nor relative.
The sun always rises.
True statement or not?
No, it is not a true statement. Always is a qualifier that cannot be supported as "what is".
