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Truth and Falsehood

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What is Truth?�What is Falsehood?

  • Falsehood is the oxymoron of truth the direct opposite.
  • As a wise man once said once the truth is diluted with falsehood it is not longer truth.

  • Truth can be broken down into different types, OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE
  • The same can be said for falsehood
  • Truth in essence is the property of being in accord with fact or reality, it is thought to be a fundamental understanding of the way thing really are beyond the limitations of human understanding or perception

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Objective VS Subjective

  • An easy definition of objective and subjective is the following
  • OBJECTIVE: something which doesn’t rely on the “mind” and can stand on it own merits, regardless of people’s beliefs and their opinion on the matter
  • SUBJECTIVE: something which relies on the “mind” or personal situations or experience which may or may not be understood by the majority
  • An example of an objective truth is the following statement “mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world” – regardless of peoples beliefs or opinions on the matter, even if it was 200 years ago where the majority of the world didn’t even know what Mount Everest; Mount Everest still was and is the tallest mountain on earth.
  • An example of a subjective truth is the following statement “Mount Killamnjaro is the tallest mountain on earth” this statement can be classed as a subjective truth even though it holds no weight in reality, and is based on perception and personal experience or even a bias.

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Methodologies

  • Perception/ induction
  • Deduction
  • Logic
  • Reality
  • History
  • Intuition
  • Relational evidence

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Truth and religion (common ground)

  • God is one and unique
  • God is the most powerful
  • God is all knowing
  • God is perfect the most perfect
  • God is just the most just
  • There is a judgement day where everyone will be held accountable according to something
  • God is the creator and will make himself known and what he wants from us known

  • From these we can deduce a criteria for the “something” a better word would be a guideline, guidance brought by God

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OBJECTIVE criteria for this “GUIDLINE”

  • Whether it’s a scripture or orally brought through a man/creature or even an inscription in some cave we don’t know about
  • > It has to make the claim it is from God

Also coherently telling us who the sender/author is.

  • > it has to be preserved from the source
  • > it has to be consistent without contradiction
  • > no mistakes
  • > it has align with reality
  • > contains proof it’s from God
  • > universal

For all types and shapes of people

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Scenario for preservation and equal justice

  • You are driving down the highway you see a speed sign that states the speed limit is “70MPh”
  • You are doing “67MPh”
  • weeks later you get a speeding ticket in the post (you were caught by a speed camera ) saying that you were speeding by 7MPH
  • You look at your dashcam footage and time of speeding you realise it was only one minute after you had seen the speed sign that you caught for speeding
  • You decide to appeal the ticket
  • Now you stood before the judge and you present your evidence
  • What will the judge do

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