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- How Exactly Do You Define Truth? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Well, the truth itself is the way things are, and like you're saying, there isn't so much we can do to further define that It just is But there's a second consideration, which is that humans make claims about the way things are These claims may be considered as sequences of characters, or noises, or perhaps patterns of mental activity And we call some of these claims true, and other claims
- logic - What is the difference between Fact and Truth? - Philosophy . . .
Truth is what the singer gives to the listener when she’s brave enough to open up and sing from her heart But still curious about the difference between both of them In our daily life, in general conversation, we generally use these both terms interchangeably Then what is the difference? Are they synonym or have specific difference?
- What is the philosophical difference between Reality and Truth?
Truth is a property of propositions, mostly propositions claiming facts Hence truth lives in a completely different domain "It rains today" is a proposition which claims a fact The proposition can be true or false On the other hand, facts are not true or false Instead, they are or they are not See also What is the difference between Fact
- What is the basis for Kants misquote If the truth shall kill them . . .
I recently discovered that the quote "If the truth shall kill them, let them die" is falsely attributed to Kant, and actually stems from Ayn Rand paraphrasing Kant [1] [2] Which work passage could
- Can truth exist without language? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
5 "Whether truth can exist without language" and "that truth is an objective reality that exists independently of us" are not opposed claims, although they don't imply one another A Platonist would tell you that language, like other mental objects, exists in the ideal realm whether people are around to think about it or not
- epistemology - Truth vs Knowledge - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Truth is a concept more narrow than knowledge Truth is a property of statements: A statement can be true or false The statement "Today is a sunny day" is true if and only the sun shines today Note: The words in quotation marks are the statement The statement refers to the actual situation given in the final part of the sentence Knowledge has a broader scope It means insight into a domain
- logic - The absolute truth paradox - Philosophy Stack Exchange
"There is no absolute truth because we as humans are restrained from ever knowing it" is fallacious, what humans can know imposes no restriction on what is And "this" will only be a way out of the paradox after it specifies which axioms of classical logic are supposed to be dropped, and shows that what is left is enough and otherwise reasonable There are several options described in standard
- epistemology - What does Nietzsche mean by there are no facts, only . . .
I came across this philosophical thought There are no facts, only interpretations written by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) As translated from Notebooks, Summer 1886 – Fall 1887, in The Portable
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