What is truth?

How do you identify certain thing as true?

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9 Comments

Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y (3 replies)

If something is in accordance with objective reality, it must be true.

fbsz@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

How do you classify by what you observe as reality, and further it could be true?

oldGregg@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Something that is measuerable and repeatable. And that anyone repeating with the same variables will get the same result.

fbsz@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

Can you elaborate and give much more detail about your claim?

yikaft@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/

I'm still chunking through this and related entries, but this was a convenient starting point for me.

I'm generally inclined to think of frameworks of truth-finding as having developed in a sort of taxonomy, like a tree. While groups will evaluate the same data similarly up to a point, say, problems with depth perception and colorblindness don't prevent people from seeing something similar as conventional-seeing people do, the different methods of evaluating the same data come from context/field-specific standards, faculties, or methods.

If a thing description is adequately modally robust or is true across different viewpoints, that seems to me a good indication it is true.

dbx12@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Can it be scientifically proven? Then it's the truth.

Hexagon@feddit.it · 2 pts · 2y

... it's assumed to be true, until proven otherwise

fbsz@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

What if our assumptions could be false? What gurantees it be truth? Or in other words, why it shouldnt be false?

Spzi@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

Model aligns with Reality.