jueves, 6 de diciembre de 2012

TRUTH



The past weeks we have being talking about truth in our tok lessons. Until the day that we started discussing this topic the term truth sounded so simple to mw, however now after our discussions i can't actually know how to decide what is true and whats not, or even the simple fact defining truth sound pretty complicated to me. We started talking about something as simple as that, What is truth? after discussing for a while what truth meant to everyone i started to understand how complex it is to explain this term since we all have different perspectives about the thrush and about was good and whats bad. We were all giving different propositions of what we consider truth and weather we though it was completely necessary to say to or it was more of a personal choice. 

However we did found out in class that there are different types of truth, we have analytic truth and we have synthetic truth. Some things such as science or math are based on analytic proofs, we all know that they are true because there are laws that sate that, however in topics such as religion, believes, ways of being taking the decision of what was good and whats not is not as easy since there is nothing that can be proven as wrong. 

Correspondence theory of truth is when a persons truth is what eh actually sees, however this may cause discussions as well. Taking int o account that we all see our worlds according to our senses and perceptions it is clear that all our perspectives are different so, would this mean that truth is difficult to everyone? that we don't have an absolute truth?

I personally came to the conclusion that there is no absolute truth because it is based on each individuals ideas, ways being, ways of knowing, senses, emotions and perceptions. We can also se that truth varies with age, culture, language and stereotypes. Taking all this factors into consideration i can ensure that there is no absolute truth in the world, however there has to yes such a thing as a personal truth. For me there is no absolute truth but thats my perspective, thats my truth, meanwhile some people may think directly because thats their truth, thats watch they see, and thats what the believe in 

Here we have an article where H. P. Blavadsky shows his perspective if the meaning of truth, even though he has evidences an explains his ideas very precisely, some people will simply disagree with it because of the perspective that they have of the world that we live in. 

1 comentario:

  1. Well done Juliana, you have referred to the different theories of truth and given examples of each. You could also think about why humans are so interested in truth and why societies feel the need to 'create' truths.

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