Is truth anything a society deems to be true?
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no. truth is truth, never subjective, otherwise it is just opinion, where the majority may prevail
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Even though your question is more philosophy than science, it is too interesting to resist the temptation to answer (and it is important when debating issues of science versus religious beliefs, for example).\n\nThe ultimate truth is that there is no ultimate truth knowable by man.\n\nTruth is what you choose to consider truth as a result of personal experience or perception (which can be mistaken), or by believing other people's experience and perceptions (which can also be mistaken, or occasionally misleading).  So truth is just what works for you for what your purposes in life are.  If you are a monk or a person for whom the most important part of life is religion, the ultimate truth is of course God and His manifestations.  If you are a scientist, the ultimate truth is constantly changing, except for a few things in math :-)
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Logic is not used to ASCERTAIN truth, it is used to reason truth and prove it's fallability.\n\nThe aspect used to ASCERTAIN truth is the question.
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There are no moral absolutes.  Anyone who tells you they always tell the truth is offering their next lie to you. I think what is important with a question of honesty, are motivations.  I think offering the truth most of the time can be shown to be the proven necessary course for most human interactions.  Without a trust in honesty, society fails.  But there are times when a falsehood could be considered.  The question then must be asked, why?  Do you lie for selfish self serving reasons?  Or are you lieing for perhaps something greater than yourself?  A stupid example, say a roommate or lover was irresponsible the night before and got tanked.  After they sober up you might discuss the behavior without beating them up about it.  But I'll call that boss everytime and explain that she is really ill and can't make it work.  Sure, the question of true alturism can always be raised, and such propositions can always be questioned from a perspective of relativity, but my emphasis would be, that circumstance can be considered in any variety of thought experiments within which the right thing to do could be to lie. Is it a lie for yourself, or are you attempting to help someone or something?  That said, lieing does suck.  Crush my heart but please tell me the truth, I've lived long enough, I can handle it.
91731
Any religion you make to be true will of course be true.  What is truth?
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Yes. Not all of it is true (factual, historical), not all of it is false (fictional, mythical).\n\nCan you handle the truth? or the falsity?
908666
Believing is one thing.  Knowing is another.  As most people have said in here, yes you can believe in whatever you want.  That doesn't make it the truth.  And NO, not everyone has to believe in something.  What everyone should have is the knowledge of the truth and the openmindedness to receive the truth.  Not mumbo jumbo from books that you just accept as your truth.
867238
You can find Truth in anything. \nI don't think it's any more reliable than anything else.
823812
Accountability is one of the measurements of truth.  There are many but I believe accountability is by far the best.  Lies can't stand the light of day when they have to be accounted for.  It's like tracing the origin of where it came from and determining what was the reason for it.  Then you will know if it is a lie or the truth.
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Truth is often directly related to change.  The truth by definition shows us something that we were not aware of, were unsure of, or actually out-right denied before.  Not surprisingly, when this happens we have to re-evaluate what is important to us and what our responsibilities in any one situation are.  Simply put, truth means change and change is scary.....
362006
Unless you understand truth, hearing it would be meaningless
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Falsehood has existence. It does exist so long as it is unfolded and the Truth emerges out of it. It is Francis Bacon who said that Truth emerges more from errors than from confusion.
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is there ANY truth to it - as in any truth in the bible, well then yes, it makes references to things that are real, egypt, rome, etc...\nit also contains what could be considered "accepted truth" in that its basic message(without getting to deep into some crazy rules and contradictions) is that we should not kill each other, treat each other fairly well and so on.  a majority of people out there believe this is the right "true" way to act, even if they don't.\nas for truth to god....well seeing has how most of the bible is kind of like an instruction book as to how to live, it needs some kind of reward/punishment system to get people to actually follow it, so my guess would be, in comes god.  he watches over you all the time and knows when you have been bad or good and...wait, sounds a little like santa claus on steroids.
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depends on what you mean by truth. I believe that the truth is actually a relative concept. if i believe soemthing to be true, then that is my truth. It's no better or worse than anybody else's. Some truths are so prevalent that trhey are almost a Truth (absolute). but all we experience is necessarily filtered by our own choices and beliefs and that goes for everyone alive. so even these almost absolute thruths can be as misguided as my own private truths.\nmy truth and yours are definitely out there, if you care to look for it. the Truth, however, is not.
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'truth' (or fact) is simply the perception of the individual.  If someone really believes in something then it is 'fact' for them even if it is fundamentally illogical for others.\n\nI do have a problem when some religious people abuse people for not believing although I think they are the minority.  \n\nLive and let live, if someone wants to believe in the God, the Loch Ness Monster or Big Foot that's cool with me as long as they don't abuse me for not.\n\nPeace out.
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truth about everything
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Because it's reliable. If you base choices, definitions or beliefs on a lie then once the truth is discovered (no matter how long it takes) your choice, definition or belief will come crumbling down since these were not founded on the reliable 'truth'.