Truth.. and what you know

[Thumpalumpacus]

Hello everyone.

I’ve always liked to discuss terms and meanings..

what I want to discuss today is the difference between "The Truth" and "What you know"


The truth is always there but no one can say this is it!! If someone did .. then that means that he is in deep ignorance.

Can you count on what you know to define the truth?!

And you're absilutely right in saying that the true test of mental strength is the willingness to accept one's own error as a possibility.


How can you be close to the truth as much as you can??

I think being truthful and trying to know the truth depends on how tolerant you are with other ideas and opinions.. how strong you are to change your mind if discovered that you are wrong .. how brave you are to say I don’t know .. and how deep you are to open your mind for others and hear their opinions with the possibility that they can be right..

So now.. what is truth? how attached are you with what you know?

and the big question is .. if you knew that the truth is with your enemy.. are you brave enough to admit?

There are different kinds of "truths". Some truths are emotional, some are objective and real, and some are lgocial and abstract.

As far as how attached I am to what I think I know, I grade it in terms of evidence and reasonability. Much of physics seems terribly esoteric to me -- say, for instance, that the flow of time changes with the speed of the observer -- but the evidence is very solid that it happens.

In other matters. they hypothesis may seem very reasonable, but be contravened by the evidence (say, geocentricism).

In short, knowledge for me is a mixture of what seems reasonable combined with how much evidence is at hand. A reasonable hypothesis without evidence is not knowledge, but not excluded from possibility; and something as nutty as QM must be accepted if the evidence says so.