Definition Essay: What Is Absolute Truth?

Knowledge is something that we know that you have facts to back up to form your argument and is justified. Knowledge isn’t something that can be created overnight but something that we form over the course of life. I feel that being raised by my grandmother I gained a lot of knowledge and wisdom because she has years and experience over me and wouldn’t tell me anything to hurt me but to help me in life. We all learn from mistakes but with mistakes gain wisdom then knowledge. We don’t gain knowledge overnight but with growth we become more aware of our worldview.

Have you ever had such a yearning for knowledge? If a person is taught from a young age, what is told to be the “truth”, he or she will be less willing to hear out any other form of the truth. Learning the difference between knowledge and truth is a hard task to accomplish. Especially if society restricts whom is allowed to gain any knowledge. As a person gains more knowledge, he or she is able to distinguish knowledge from truth.

Imagine going through life learning and following what is believed to be the true , just to find out that it is a lie. In the story “ By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benet the narrator, John is on a quest to find more knowledge, however he ends up discovering unexpected truths on his journey that affects his lifelong beliefs. The story leads the reader to an interesting question: what is the relationship between knowledge and truth? Knowledge is the education or information that is gained about a subject, idea, or experience. Gaining knowledge is often helpful and rewarding to a person, however the information or facts that is received is not always the truth.

Truth, what is truth? This question itself has a thousand answers, no person can ever be sure of what truth is rather, truth can be justified, it can checked for reliability with strong evidences and logic. If the evidence proves to be accurate then it can be established that a certain answer is the truth. However, have we ever tried to think about what intrigues us to seek the truth? To think about a question and set foot firmly on the path of knowledge. Definitely it has! That was the very cause itself which is why this world has witnessed some of the greatest philosophers like Aristotle, Plato and Socrates etc. along with the school of thought. The ability to think and reason is one of the greatest ability humans have, it is what

To many people, a lie has little significance. Some people tell lies as a way to cover something up, make a different name for themselves, or just to make excuses. No matter what the situation, my father has constantly reminded me that the truth will set you free, and as I get older even though I am still in my youth, the more I realize the truth and importance of that statement. To me a lie is a form of disloyalty, the less you respect the person the more you lie to them as a way to cover up your true identity. A lie is when you mislead what is really the truth; where you don’t tell the full truth in order to deceive someone, or you avoid being honest at all. There are several different outcomes to

In today’s world, the way we perceive events and situations is largely influenced by the public representation of the issue. Media plays a big part in how we see certain situations, and helps shape our attitudes towards them. One of the issues of current significgsance is the Australian immigration policy and the treatment of “Boat People”. In this essay, I will argue that there is misrepresentations of this issue in the public representation such as the media the tensions that are inherent include, propaganda, the use of specific language and the widespread ignorance about demography. I will be discussing these in my essay.

What is truth? What does it mean? How can someone be truthful? These are all questions that can be answered many different ways. In my opinion, being truthful is the same as being 100% honest with someone. A big example that defines what truth is and how it can and cannot be used is the 2016 Presidential Election. Trump and Hillary are both experts on how to tell the truth but also lie at the same time.

One consistency in both texts of the Meno (Meno 99c) and Republic (Republic 472d) is that people who use true belief cannot show or explain how their belief is the truth. I believe this is one of the largest distinctions between knowledge and true belief. Knowledge is

Good- what is it that defines the word good? In order to understand what is a good language, we have to first define the word good. According to Dictionary.com, good is defined as morally excellent, virtuous, righteous, or pious. I believe the word good is deeper than that. Through my personally experiences the word good is subjective to the person it was be applied to and because of this reason I have concluded that a good language is defined by yourself and the society you reside in and it shows your personal morals.

When talking about truth we need to know what can be identified as being true, in the Oxford Pocket American Dictionary of Current English, states that truth means, the quality or statement of being true. Being true means to be in accordance with facts or reality, genuine; rightly or strictly so called; not spurious or counterfeit, loyal or faithful. Truth can be translated many ways, different people have different opinions on the definition, but how do we know if it’s true in “fact die but the narratives lives on” Ben Trovato explains to us that we feel truth, “how, then , do we decide which narratives are true? By asking whether they feel true” (Trovato) while in “Steel Cage Death Match: Plato vs. Aristotle in The Arena of Truth”.

In his book ‘Meditations on First Philosophy’, Descartes writes that all beliefs, even the most irresistible convictions, may not correspond to how the world really is; and this is something that defenders of the correspondence theory are arguably unable to dismiss. As a result, the coherence theory takes a different approach and argues that a proposition (truth-bearer) is true if it ‘fits’ or coheres with a specific set of beliefs (truth-maker). These beliefs may belong either to the individual (and include the laws of logic, for example), to human beings at the ultimate stage of historical development, or to a system of beliefs held by a God or the Absolute (Walker, 1989). So in the example where Billy believes that ‘dogs have five legs’, his claim can be assessed by considering if this statement coheres with a specific set of true beliefs. For instance, it may be commonly understood that dogs have four legs not five, that there has never been a dog with more than four legs, and that no one apart from Billy has ever claimed that dogs can have more than four legs. Thus, it follows that the key to determining whether Billy’s statement is true or false is “internal consistency and logical standards” (Dunwoody, 2009, p. 117).

Truth can be defined as conformity to reality or actuality and in order for something to be “true” it must be public, eternal, and independent. If the “truth” does not follow these guidelines then it cannot be “true.” Obviously in contrary anything that goes against the boundaries of “truth” is inevitably false. True and false, in many cases does not seem to be a simple black and white situation, there could sometimes be no grounds to decide what is true and what is false. All truths are a matter of opinion. Truth is relative to culture, historical era, language, and society. All the truths that we know are subjective truths (i.e. mind-dependent truths) and there is nothing more to truth than what we are willing to assert as true

1. Forms: In my interpretation , Plato indicates “Forms” as an existence of “Absolute Truth”. He doesn’t clearly define what “Forms” are, but he believes that “Forms” do exist. I personally under some circumstances believe in the existence of “Forms”. For example, during the class, Dr. Haney gave an example about the definition of “Largeness”. He mentions that each individual has his own definition of largeness, and this definition is unique for each person. Thus, all together, the “Largeness”, according to Plato, isn’t large. I don’t quite understand why it is not. For instance, in my opinion, the individual’s definition is unique, however, it’s all based on some basic standard. For example, we all define largeness based on comparison on sizes or dimensions. Depends on what we compare to, our definition of largeness would be different. Thereby, all definition would share somewhat the idea of “Largeness”. Or in another words, I believed that “Forms” according to Plato is something in common, sharable idea. It is partially sharable, thus not additive. Some might ask, if its only partial, how could it be “absolute”? I would say that it depends on our own definition of “absolute”. To me, “absolute” means that it’s something viewed or existing independently, and “absolute” doesn’t relate to other things. Thereby, “Largeness”, for example, as in the comparison to something is unique and independent on any individuals.

For that reason, truth differentiates among individuals thorough their contrasting opinions. But, truth is something that everyone believes to be correct. Thus, it greatly depends on what’s true in the minds of the people. On the contrary, truth that’s spoken with bad intent is considered to be worse than a lie. Hence, truth is an expression, symbol or statement that corresponds to reality and happiness.

Knowledge can be gained and interpreted in many different ways. It all depends on how people prioritize different ways of knowing and how they perceive what knowledge is. This has led to the question, Does knowledge consist solely of proven facts and information that can be organized in a coherent manner, or is knowledge deeper, depending not only on facts, but also on interpretation stemming from individual experiences? The question is, are facts alone enough to constitute knowledge or do those facts need to be interpreted under guidance of personal experiences in order to gain knowledge. In two areas of knowledge that have a large role in my life, natural science and religion, I can see both sides to the argument.