Truth Is Truth

The two books Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Left Hand of Darkness help to define humanity and truth. Humanity is the condition, quality or fact of being human collectively. The definition of truth is things as they are, things as they have been, and things as they are to come. Truth cannot change because it does not reflect a personal perspective. These books illustrate how humans relate towards themselves, friends, enemies and humanity as a whole.

points to the nature of truth to be unchanging. Despite all the advances a society may

Dictionaries have changed immensely over time. If we look at just one word in the dictionary to see the different definitions from 3 different time periods, you see just how it has evolved. The word truth had 13 different definitions in 1828, but if you look at the same word in 1913, it has 2. In 1828, some definitions are: correct opinion, exactness, and conformity of fact or reality. Then in 1913, you see the same definition, conformity to fact or reality, but you also see: to assert as true; to declare. Then when we get to the modern dictionary, the definitions include: the real facts about something,and a statement or idea accepted as true. It seems to me that in 1828 if you think it's correct, it's true. In 1913 it seems that if you

The definition of truth is something that is always valid and cannot be proved invalid. Radiolab's podcast “Truth Warriors”, is about people who pursue the truth. In this podcast Neil deGrasse Tyson proves to a barista that he didn’t put whip cream in his hot cocoa and Errol Morris proves whether a photo of the Crimean War was staged or authentic. Neil believed that the barista did not put in whip cream, but the barista insisted otherwise. To prove him wrong, Neil then made the barista put more whip cream into his hot cocoa and the whip cream dipped once then stayed afloat on the hot cocoa proving to the barista that he did not put in the whip cream originally. Neil did not think the truth was that the cream sank to the bottom so he “fought”

Universal truths correspond with everything to do with life and everything else. One universal truth that has a message that rings true, especially in today’s world is, “a million people can believe a foolish thing, but it is still a foolish thing”. This universal truth can be taken a number of ways, the first is reading it literal - going by it word for word. Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild, wrote about this universal truth, but in another understanding. His book used the truth in the sense that just because everyone believes in something, it does not necessarily make it true.

“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

Knowledge is defined as a true justified belief; however, what if it were impossible to differentiate between truth and falsehood? The Matrix addresses this question when Neo awakens from the Matrix and discovers that he has been living in a false reality. He is told that this new reality is the truth, and that his life in the Matrix was simply a computer program controlling his thoughts and actions (The Matrix). The Matrix presents the idea that truth is equivalent to objective reality, in contrast to Kierkegaard’s belief that only subjective truth combined with faith is necessary. However, both the movie and Kierkegaard believe in the importance of taking a leap of faith. In the movie, truth is shown to be reality, but they do not explain how to know when you are living in reality, because it is impossible to be entirely sure that you are living in reality.

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

How does a person decide on the truth? Deciphering false information from truth can be difficult, especially when widely known sources can give false or biased news, cough cough Fox News. Humans trivialize lies and exaggeration, but is a "little white lie" really little if it adds momentum to the growing boulder of lies that is slowly crushing the already unstable foundation of truth in society? Is there life in space? No one knows; however, this boulder did start as a small pebble of truth.

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.

"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

Throughout human existence, scholars have earnestly pursued knowledge and the attainment of truth. Historical figures such as Plato, Descartes, and Emerson sought answers to daunting questions of: ‘What is truth?’; ‘What is reality?’; ‘How is wisdom acquired?’ Many scholars believe these philosophers presented conflicting viewpoints: Plato encouraging skepticism among all previous historical, cultural, and personal perspectives; Descartes questioning definitions of reality and his very existence; Emerson encouraging self-trust and confidence in one’s ideals, opinions, and convictions. Surprisingly, reconciliation can be reached from these three differing hypotheses. Emerson’s thesis merely expounds from Descartes and Plato’s

Adam White Blue 2 Truth is a very important aspect of everyday life. Everyone hopes the truth will benefit them, and it usually does. There are, of course, instances when it doesn’t, but either way, knowing the truth brings humans great closure. People go to great lengths in order to obtain the truth and the closure it brings them. Both Sophocles and Steven Spielberg shed light on this need for truth in their respective texts:

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.