Three Types Of Truth

Brianna K. Slone’s poem “Through the Eyes of a Child” serves to convey her recollection of the divorce of her parents with the underlying question of, why? Slone employs pathos, an artistic use of language, and chronology to allow her emotions to permeate, not only to herself, but also to her audience. At the same time, the poem “Three Truths and a Lie” aims to convey the life story of an active duty Coast Guardsman who has been subjected to circumstances that mimic that of Slone’s. The author of “Three Truths and a Lie” implements many of the same rhetorical strategies as Slone; however, attempts to supplement her tactic by adding personal anecdotes and a prevalent rhyme scheme. By utilizing the same tactics as Slone, the author attempts to attain the same sincerity and impact as “Through the Eyes of a Child”.

Some claim that truth does not exist. Others claim that truth is subjective. To make any progress in searching for the true world-view, a person must presuppose that truth is real. In fact, even the person who claims that truth does not exist is making a statement that they believe is true. For their statement to be true, truth must exist. In addition, the person who claims that truth is subjective is making a contradictory statement. If truth is subjective, then their statement can be false. If their statement is false, then truth is objective and absolute. If truth is objective and absolute, then their statement is most definitely not true. So, what is truth? For the sake of determining what is true, truth must be defined as the objective, absolute reflection and affirmation of reality that is supported and not contradicted by fact and logic. This leads to the question of how to determine what is true. A few foundational truths help to determine what else is true. One of

“This is true.” (O’Brien, 420) – with this simple statement which also represents a first, three-word introductory paragraph to Tim O’Brien’s short story, “How to Tell a True War Story”, the author reveals the main problem of what will follow. “Truth” – when looked up in a dictionary, we would probably find definitions similar to sincerity and honesty on the one hand, and correctness, accuracy or reality on the other hand. When looking at these definitions, one can make out two groups of meaning: While sincerity and honesty are very subjective, correctness or accuracy are supposed to be objective by nature. One can be sincere and still not report the truth, due to the simple fact

In present day civilizations, societal conflicts seem to be on the rise, more than ever before. It seems as if everyone has an individualized philosophy. There are people that merely wish to maintain cultural peace; pursuing the tolerance of conflicting perspectives. This variance makes me wonder, is there undoubtedly one dogma of truth that all humanity should be able to conform to? Should everyone have the right to substantiate their personalized interpretation of cultural truth? Will the liberality of this diversification generate cordial acceptance, or will it solely effectuate cultural chaos? There are three recognizable conflicting views of truth represented by our society; absolutism, societal relativism,

What is your understanding of “ truth” after your study of conflicting perspectives and their representation?

What is your definition of truth and fear? People have different views on truth and fear and have definitions. Truth is something that is true it's the state of being true. FEar is something that scares someone to do something. Like when someone is scared to go into a haunted house.

Is it really? Politics, ‘The Sensible and Judicious Lie,’ promising better ways of living: Support us and Follow our lead and life will be better, but better for whom? At what price? Justice,‘ The Judicial Lie,’ promising that the truth always prevails. Which truth, the powerful’s or the weaker’s? Is “an eye for an eye” the truth? Then, if a promise is broken, does it not become a lie? For centuries is was believed Earth was flat and supported by four gigantic elephants. That was an absolute truth then; is it now? Thus, does anyone really hold the ultimate truth? The riddle could go on

A man once told me that there is no truth in this world. All the ideas such as Math, Science, Language, and even society is all made up. That the only reason two plus two equals four is based solely off of one man saying it does, and society agreeing with it blindly. But I tell you that there is no such thing as truth, but that itself is a truth.

Lying the one form of communication that is the untruth expressed to be the truth. Immanuel Kant states that lying is morally wrong in all possible ways. His hatred for lying has made him “just assumed that anyone who lied would be operating with a maxim like this: tell a lie so as to gain some benefit.”(Landau,pp.171) This is true for a vast number of people, they will lie in order to gain a certain benefit from the lie rather than the truth.It is similar to if you play a game of truth or dare, some rather pick a dare because it would release them from having to tell the truth. However, those who do pick truth still have a chance to lie to cover up the absolute truth.People lie in order to cover who they truly are. Even if you lie to benefit someone or something else, it would not matter to Kant because he does not care for the consequences. If you lie but have a good intention it is not the same for Kant, he would argue that you still lied no matter the consequence that a lie is a lie. “ While lying, we accuse others for not being transparent. While being hypocrites ourselves, we expect others to be sincere.” (Dehghani,Ethics) We know how it feels to be lied to by a person, so in order to not have the feeling returned, we hope the person will be truthful. We rather be surrounded by truthful people constantly despite all the lies that some people tell. No

What is truth and where can we find it? We are always thinking that one is right and one is wrong. But John Mill suggests that truth is going to be found in the middle somewhere as a combination .(Page 43). But if we are only hearing one side, we are limited and cannot find the truth. He believes that suppression is also wrong. In order to find the answer or the truth we must have an open dialogue. truth only comes after expression of our thoughts and expression of our narrative.

French novelist Gustave Flaubert once said, “There is no Truth. There is only perception.” Since the 1800s, when this quote was given, it still holds true. This quote puts the idea that no one really knows the truth, and what is believed to be the truth is merely the perception through which it is seen, into words. A modern day example of truth being used is seen in the movie The Virgin Suicides.

Delving into this deeper, how can we define something as an optical illusion as “true” or not? For example, a rainbow is considered to be real, and people don’t question their existence, but they’re just optical illusions caused by the refraction of light through water droplets in the air, and don’t exist in a specific location in the sky at all, instead, it depends on the viewers location combined with the position of the sun in the sky. We can trust our eyes to show us a rainbow, if ones around for us to view, but the rainbow isn’t a real image, its simply light bent in different directions, so does this make our perception false? An optical illusion such as rainbows, mirages, and magic eye images, exist in some ways, but not in others, so depending on what type of existence we wish

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

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.

Buddhism first appeared in India between the 5th and 6th BCE and is considered to be one of the oldest practiced religion and philosophy. It is a way of life that is governed by a series of passages and countless rules. These passages and rules are meant to enable an individual to further their growth as an agent of transformations to reach the ultimate goal of enlightenment. Though Buddhism, as its original form, is a strict and non peruvious practice of life, it provides of practical outlook on life and how one should be with their environment. The first teaching or the first Dharma, dictated by Siddhartha Gautama, were the Four Noble Truths. Not only are the four noble truths the backbone of Buddhism and they help us understand the