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Bookmark or Share- Does every truth have to be provable based on evidence?Evidence requires a truth to be evidence of, but a truth does not require evidence to be true. We don't know everything. Thus we are missing evidence, thus there are truths we don't have the evidence for. But even if that evidence wouldn't exist, that wouldn't make the truths any less true. Dinosaurs existed.
- Why do we need to know the truth? - Philosophy Stack ExchangeShould I be able to quantify truth? Yes. It is useful. We know the truth about electricity and that truth helps us. We should focus our search where existing truths point to as-yet-unknown truths. Truths may or may not be quantifiable. It is not possible to know all truths as proven by Gödel. Question 3: Is truth impractical to acquire?
- logic - The absolute truth paradox - Philosophy Stack ExchangeIn this way truth depends on the person establishing a truth. Newton's laws, the principle of contradiction, any truth whatever —these are true only as long as Dasein is. Before there was any Dasein, there was no truth; nor will there be any after Dasein is no more. For in such a case truth as disclosedness, uncovering, and uncoveredness ...
- truth - What is opinion? - Philosophy Stack ExchangeIt is commonly agreed that there is a clear distinction between fact and opinion. Physical facts can be verified. Opinion varies and may be based on faith. But what about opinions which, over time,
- What is the philosophical difference between "Reality" and "Truth"?The problem, however, is to determine what is real. For instance, for Plato Truth describes Reality, but neither truth nor reality are equated, for him, with the physical/material states of being that most people view as constitutive of reality. A related but distinct theory is the semantic theory which holds that "truth" is a property of ...
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