Truth value

indicating that it is an individual’s moral principal and responsibility to disclose the truth. The obligation of being truthful is not only inseparable from that of right or law, but one that does not harm duty to another individual. Furthermore, a person who states the truth should not be held liable for the penalties stemming from their honest response. The harm initiated to one as a outcome of the truth should not inflict any moral or legal accountability to the individual who has told the…

mind-blowing. I think every philosophy we have looked at has held a truth. Schiller says it is nature that equipped man with the ability to move from what is real to what is not. Nature provided man with two senses to help them create; sight and hearing. Once someone can enjoy sight he is aesthetically free. The power of sight gives one the ability to distinguish the image from an object. Appearance becomes an aesthetic value because of its separation from the object itself. One lets their…

Relativism vs Christianity Relativism shuns the notion of absolute truth. Because there is no absolute truth, anything and everything is true or not true only to those who choose to believe or disbelieve it. In other words “truth may be true for one but not for another since everyone has different interpretations based on different human conditions” (Christian Part one 6). This creates problems because if everything is relative, then so are morals. The morals of relativism are severely warped.…

Everybody lies. People know that lying is wrong, but they still do it. They are the source of an unimaginable amount of mistrust and conflict. The consequences of being caught are often irreversible. They complicate the world without adding anything of value to it. Despite all these factors, people lie. The benefits of lying must seem extremely tantalizing in order for somebody to risk trying it. There are three interconnected reasons people lie: To escape consequences, to appear better, and to…

The Correspondence Theory of Truth can be traced back to early Greek philosophers. Aristotle defined Truth as: “To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.” While the theory has undergone countless revisions, it still maintains that the determining factor in Truth is whether or not a premise accurately describes reality. For example, we may say Heliocentrism is true and that we can say…

perhaps the intrinsic value of truth is romanticized. This is not to say that falsehood automatically has more power than the truth; simply that, in a given context, perhaps, the sole knowledge of the truth would fail to convert an obstinate and cruel audience to righteousness. In such a situation, the power of truth’s possessors eclipses the intrinsic power of the truth to maintain morality and to eradicate evil falsehoods. These problems surrounding the effectiveness of truth in this regard…

model. Carr proposes that there exists within historical studies the need for interpretation, and that there is no such thing as a universalized “truth” or “fact”. This is evocative of the Postmodernist phenomenon to critique and rethink approaches to history, which I will discuss later in this paper. Elton, on the other hand, emphasizes the universal “truth” within historical studies. He insists that there is no such thing as “subjectivity”, and all facts within historical sources are indeed…

Truth means absolute. It is the opposite of fake. When you want to know if Santa's real you always ask your parents, because you trust them. Or at least I did.. Are you telling the truth? Do you pinky promise? As children we always wanted to know the truth, the real stuff. But now as we grow into adulthood the authenticity is a little scary. Truth is we will all have to grow up, we will have to pay water bills, buy groceries, get married, and be alone sometimes. That's the truth, it will happen.…

to be good. It follows that the property of a belief and/or the justification of it cannot make it true. Properties are determinants of the truth value. We therefore require an intrinsic connection to truth. If we accept that most intellectual virtues have truth as their ultimate end; then it follows that our disposition in arriving at true knowledge is truth-driven. Zagzebski defines knowledge as, “cognitive contact with reality arising out of acts of intellectual virtue.” Arriving to moral…

The truth, or validity, of a statement can make the difference between holding your readers’ attention or losing it. What value does a paper hold if the author cannot present the truth? The Bible is very clear, when speaking of truth. Zechariah 8:16 says, “These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace” (EVS). And here again, Psalm 43:3 says, “Send out your light and your truth, let them lead me; let them…