Truth poll

[ciphergoth]

I should really post this on a Monday but I might as well do it now. A whole bunch of assertions to do with truth that it occurred to me to poll about...

[Poll #1365485]

Comments

[keirf.livejournal.com]

Case 1 is just a special case of 2 in which the "something" is your mind. But in case 2 isn't there the possibility that you can recurse down infinitely, in which case where is your Truth? Or what if we had some hypothetical way of observing the actual universe, but it changed every time it was observed - what happens to Truth then?

[andrewducker]

Or what if we had some hypothetical way of observing the actual universe, but it changed every time it was observed - what happens to Truth then?

This does seem to be the case with the actual universe - and it just means that that's part of The Truth.

[keirf.livejournal.com]

If Truth is something that may or may not be consistent and complete, or even rational, and in any case we can't observe it or if we can we can't know that we have then I don't see much point to it other than a historical part of philosophy. It's kind of up there with phlogiston and the ether.