by Mortecai4 on Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:32 pm
([msg=14932]see Re: Is there such a thing as truth[/msg])
That would depend on what you mean by truth.
Statements can by true, like information, like math statements, like logical statements.
All these can be found true, or correct, because they make logical sense.
The greek philosiphers had different ideas on philisophical truths.
Plato believed that everything in this world was a dark shadow of what is really real.
He believed that the real truth came from the heavens; for example justice on earth is what we percieve
to be real justice, but isn't real justice,just an imperfect reflection of the real thing. He believed that most
people were ignorant of the real truth, and once they saw that, they would be happy.
Look up the allegory of the cave, that sums up most of Plato's philosophy.
One of his students Aristotle believed different; he believed that truth, true knowledge comes from what you
percieve in the world around you. He believed that only through the senes can you find truths about the world.