You choose the correspondence theory of truth: I choose the coherence theory of truth with a nod to Plato.Sculptor wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 11:21 amSadly true. People who feel their petty beliefs are true is at the heart of all calumnies of the world.Belinda wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 11:16 amPeople also have feelings about truth. At the simplest level honesty is the basis of any society because a society runs on rails of people meaning what they say and keeping promises. Most people know this, even when society is fractured into sub groups some of them criminal sub groups.
But these are not "truth" but a pale fake truth.
At psychological level people's feelings about truth often amount to longings for or aimings-for more honesty , more truth, in social relationships.
Truth has been reified for the metaphysical level of feelings about truth.It may be the reification that you don't approve of.
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But that's not what it says. The title (not the article) is "No Such Thing as, 'The Truth'," which is intentionally capitalized.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:18 amIt can't be. Remember, "there's not such thing as the truth."
The first paragraph says: "There is no such thing as, "The Truth," or ultimate truth or absolute truth. Truth is not a thing, not a substance, and not an entity."
It never says there is no truth. It does not say there is nothing that is true. I'm explaining what truth actually is, not repudiating it.
"Absolutely true," is redundant. A proposition is either true or it isn't. There is no more "absolute truth," then there is, "absolute red," or, "absolute wet," or, "absolute live."Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:18 am But if it IS true, then what you said was false: there is an absolute truth, namely, that what you said is absolutely true.
What I said was simply true. It is simply one example of a true statement because it has, as a proposition, the attribute, "truth."
Of course. That's why I never made such a claim.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:18 am You can't get both: you can't claim there's no truth, and then frame it as a true statement.
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I never said there is no truth. You are making the same mistake as IC. See my response to him.stevie wrote: ↑Sun Oct 24, 2021 6:44 amThere being no truth as you say you can't claim to be true what you are claiming.
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That's not true about all propositions. Some are true, some are not true; some are undecidable.
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Now relate this to my theory on "sacrifice". SEE my response to you at "Re: My theory on Temples and Sacrifice is purged everywhere!"Belinda wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 11:16 amPeople also have feelings about truth. At the simplest level honesty is the basis of any society because a society runs on rails of people meaning what they say and keeping promises. Most people know this, even when society is fractured into sub groups some of them criminal sub groups.
At psychological level people's feelings about truth often amount to longings for or aimings-for more honesty , more truth, in social relationships.
Truth has been reified for the metaphysical level of feelings about truth.It may be the reification that you don't approve of.
That the 'Lord' permitted Abraham to keep Isaac was symbolic of change where compassion by the settled 'owners of land' to the *unsettled was unusual. ["Lord" in the bible can literally refer to how the non-owning nomads were being forced to pay 'tolls' as trespassers who referred to the settlement owners as arrogant 'gods' expecting sacrifice for cutting across their nicely manicured lawns. That the story demonstrates a 'lord' who had unusual compassion in their day and would have been unique and very novel representation of compassion.]
* Edit: fixed "settled" to "unsettled" at the asterisk above.
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Fine. Obviously you are rejecting something which is rarely asserted nowadays and you are making a difference between "the truth" and "the true" similar to ancient Stoics. But who cares about such kind of fabricated differentiations?RCSaunders wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:31 pmI never said there is no truth. You are making the same mistake as IC. See my response to him.
Nevertheless in the OP you are claiming "Truth is an attribute." and "is an assertion that is true if such'n'such is actually so'n'so" and "There is no other kind of truth." which may lead to the concept of an absolutely true attribute which then isn't any different from "ultimate truth or absolute truth" which you are denying. So you have to work on a precise verbal expression to avoid self contradiction. I suggest you add the word "relative" or "conventional" and say "Truth is a relative/conventional attribute."
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People have, "feelings," about everything, from their constipation to their latest sentimental delusions. Nothing is more deceptive than one's irrational feelings. Almost every fatal mistake results from allowing feelings to influence one's thinking and choices.
If you want to enjoy your life in this world you must understand that, to truth, you feelings do not matter at all.
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You're admitting it's not true. If it is true, you've falsified your own claim...and made it false again. So either way, it's guaranteed to be false.
Heh. That's easy": you didn't "do" a thing. There was no achievement, no creation of a real thing, and no logic in the fact that you spoke those words. They're simple nonsense, self-contradiction.If you are going to insist that I can't do what I have just done, go ahead and explain how I just did the impossible.
What's more remarkable is that you're not able to see how obviously that's the case. One would think that putting two simple sentences side by side, each stating the opposite of the other, would be very hard to miss...
But somehow, you missed your own point.
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So is it true; or false? You can't seem to tell.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 1:52 pm You're admitting it's not true. If it is true, you've falsified your own claim...and made it false again. So either way, it's guaranteed to be false.
At the very least I created something that seems like a contradiction. Par for the course then - the creation satisfies the intention.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 1:52 pm Heh. That's easy": you didn't "do" a thing. There was no achievement, no creation of a real thing, and no logic in the fact that you spoke those words. They're simple nonsense, self-contradiction.
I am still waiting for you to point out a problem.
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You forgot that some nouns are abstract nouns. "The truth" is an abstract noun, designating the set of all true statements.RCSaunders wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:21 pm The first paragraph says: "There is no such thing as, "The Truth," or ultimate truth or absolute truth. Truth is not a thing, not a substance, and not an entity."
And if your statement doesn't belong in the set of all true statements, then it isn't true, by definition.
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You're a terrible reader. It's false. Either way, it has to be. It falsifies itself.Skepdick wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:02 pmSo is it true; or false? You can't seem to tell.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 1:52 pm You're admitting it's not true. If it is true, you've falsified your own claim...and made it false again. So either way, it's guaranteed to be false.
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So does the set of all true statements contain the statement "The set of all true statements exists" ?Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:04 pm You forgot that some nouns are abstract nouns. "The truth" is an abstract noun, designating the set of all true statements.
And if your statement doesn't belong in the set of all true statements, then it isn't true, by definition.
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You are an even worse interpreter. There is no such thing as self-falsification.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:05 pm You're a terrible reader. It's false. Either way, it has to be. It falsifies itself.
Falsifying myself affirms the falsifier.
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Of course.Skepdick wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:05 pmSo does the set of all true statements contain the statement "The set of all true statements exists" ?Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:04 pm You forgot that some nouns are abstract nouns. "The truth" is an abstract noun, designating the set of all true statements.
And if your statement doesn't belong in the set of all true statements, then it isn't true, by definition.
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Empty rhetoric.Skepdick wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:06 pmYou are an even worse interpreter. There is no such thing as self-falsification.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:05 pm You're a terrible reader. It's false. Either way, it has to be. It falsifies itself.
Falsifying myself affirms the falsifier.