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What 'Objective Truth' IS, EXACTLY, and how 'It' is OBTAINED, EXACTLY, is VERY SIMPLE and VERY EASY to KNOW. Oo, goody! 🙂 Many philosophers have been puzzled, over the millennia, about what Objective Truth is, and now you have discovered it. Please tell us what it is, and how we might know that it ...

Also, and by the way, 'the Truth' IS IRREFUTABLE, whereas 'the truth' can be REFUTED on MANY occasions. A person lives in the forest and every time a particular squirrel squeaks, a tree falls a few seconds later. That person is justified to believe the squirrel causes the tree falling and that beli...

Also, and by the way, 'the Truth' IS IRREFUTABLE, whereas 'the truth' can be REFUTED on MANY occasions. Ah, so "the Truth" is O bjective T ruth — correspondence with ' that which actually, and mind-independently, is '? If, and when, one wants to use the 'mind' word, then I suggest that th...

Also, and by the way, 'the Truth' IS IRREFUTABLE, whereas 'the truth' can be REFUTED on MANY occasions. A person lives in the forest and every time a particular squirrel squeaks, a tree falls a few seconds later. That person is justified to believe the squirrel causes the tree falling and that beli...

Also, and by the way, 'the Truth' IS IRREFUTABLE, whereas 'the truth' can be REFUTED on MANY occasions. A person lives in the forest and every time a particular squirrel squeaks, a tree falls a few seconds later. That person is justified to believe the squirrel causes the tree falling and that beli...

Transcendent Truth isn't available to us, and never will be. But we can know it sufficiently for all intents and purposes, and regularly do. I assume "Transcendent Truth" is pretty much the same as Objective Truth, and I quite agree: it is inaccessible to us humans. But we don't know &quo...

Also, and by the way, 'the Truth' IS IRREFUTABLE, whereas 'the truth' can be REFUTED on MANY occasions. Ah, so "the Truth" is O bjective T ruth — correspondence with ' that which actually, and mind-independently, is '? If you wanted to say that you consider Truth to be O bjective, why did...

How does one KNOW, for sure, when they have arrived at the one Truth? How does one, accurately, DISTINGUISH between a truth and the one Truth? a) Knowledge is justified belief and the amount of justification necessary to be considered knowledge is contingent. If it doesn't have major or moral impli...

The stereotypical examples are: 'does God exist?' and 'could we be brains-in-vats?' There are many other examples, of course. It seems to me that we can't rule out either of those being determined to be true at some point by science. Brain in a vat scenarios are often talked about these days in ter...

Advocate wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 12:59 pm There is only one truth.

Hmm, OK. Then what is it, this One Truth of which you seem to have knowledge?

Religion validates from the inside out; Science validates from the outside in. I don't think either of them "validates" anything at all, but for different reasons. Both seek to reach what they understand as 'truth'... They each make truth claims purported to be supported. Yes, they do, bu...

What would be an example of an author who is worthy of praise not being widely known and/or read--at least in the long term, including posthumous fame? In my opinion , such an author might be Herman Hesse. But you might find his writing poor, or otherwise unimpressive. That's rather the point with ...

Yes, you were only expressing an opinion, but its expression seemed to be intended to put Austen readers in their place as belonging to a lower order than the readers of the authors you mentioned. I just thought that was uncalled for; that's why I commented on it. In that case, I apologise for my '...

What would be an example of an author who is worthy of praise not being widely known and/or read--at least in the long term, including posthumous fame? In my opinion , such an author might be Herman Hesse. But you might find his writing poor, or otherwise unimpressive. That's rather the point with ...

Pattern-chaser wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 2:24 pm Must an author worthy of praise be widely known and read?

But you didn't answer my question?