Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Deep Thinkers 4
Thread: Deep Thinkers 4
View Single Post
 
Old 08-25-2022, 12:07 PM
MartinSE MartinSE is offline
Platinum member
Join Date: Feb 2022
Posts: 1,883
Thanks: 100
Thanked 1,723 Times in 666 Posts
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive View Post
Ah, truth.

Whose truth?
..
There is no more slippery a word in the English language than "truth". My guess is that in any random group of ten people there will be at least eleven different definitions of truth.
No, that is NOT true.

Truth is clearly defined - and is fact based not opinion based. Yeah, the word gets thrown around a lot today, and yeah, some believe their opinion is truth today. But, truth is fact. When there are no facts, then the closest we can come to truth is demonstrable theories which is another word that gets thrown around a lot now days, and mostly misused.

What people "believe" has little to do with truth and more to do with what agrees with their personal world view. That is why the scientific method and peer reviewing data is critical.