[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by Lindsyburnsy

At this precise moment, I'm more worried about losing our democracy because truth doesn't seem to matter anymore.

Ah, truth.

Whose truth?

"A lie, told often enough, becomes the truth" (Vladimir Lenin)

"Truth is that which serves the Party" (Josef Goebbels)

"A lie can get halfway around the world before truth can get its pants on (Winston Churchill)

"What is Truth"? (Pontius Pilate)

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable" (James Garfield)

"In time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" (unknown)

"The first reaction to Truth is hatred" (Tertullian)

"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe" (Andy Rooney)

"One of the reasons that people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Money and power are." (Cal Thomas)

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad". (Aldous Huxley)

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.

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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

Ah, truth.

Whose truth?

"A lie, told often enough, becomes the truth" (Vladimir Lenin)

"Truth is that which serves the Party" (Josef Goebbels)

"A lie can get halfway around the world before truth can get its pants on (Winston Churchill)

"What is Truth"? (Pontius Pilate)

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable" (James Garfield)

"In time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" (unknown)

"The first reaction to Truth is hatred" (Tertullian)

"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe" (Andy Rooney)

"One of the reasons that people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Money and power are." (Cal Thomas)

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad". (Aldous Huxley)

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.

You left out, "Truth? You can't handle the truth!".

[MartinSE]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

Ah, truth.

Whose truth?
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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.