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'Truth' is a label that denotes certainty of belief. Philosophers since Plato, have traditionally held that knowledge is justified, true belief. In that analysis, 'truth' is just any state of the world that is the case. Whatever the truth about the world, we put what we see and hear into a context....

'Truth' is a label that denotes certainty of belief. 'Absolute truth' is a label that denotes certainty of the certainty of the belief. And certainty is a consequence of utility and self-consistency within a paradigm. It is the confidence that further investigation around that belief will not chang...

'Truth' is a label that denotes certainty of belief. 'Absolute truth' is a label that denotes certainty of the certainty of the belief. And certainty is a consequence of utility and self-consistency within a paradigm. It is the confidence that further investigation around that belief will not chang...

I think if I were going to teach ethics, I would ask students to ctreate their own morals: What maxims are you prepared to live by and that you would want others to live by as well? By going through this process the students would actually get to own the maxims that they come up with. They would no...

'Truth' is a label that denotes certainty of belief. 'Absolute truth' is a label that denotes certainty of the certainty of the belief. And certainty is a consequence of utility and self-consistency within a paradigm. It is the confidence that further investigation around that belief will not change...

I think if I were going to teach ethics, I would ask students to ctreate their own morals: What maxims are you prepared to live by and that you would want others to live by as well? By going through this process the students would actually get to own the maxims that they come up with. They would not...

I would say that time is discrete because if it were continuous it would require an infinite amount of information to define the particular time of an event. And a universe can only contain a finite amount of information.

By the same argument, space is also discrete.