Hi Stephen P. King There are many definitions of truth (see below):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth I like Whitehead's, which describes contemporary politics: Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead, a British mathematician who became an American philosopher[citation needed], said: "There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that play the devil". The logical progression or connection of this line of thought is to conclude that truth can lie, since half-truths are deceptive and may lead to a false conclusion. Contents 1 Nomenclature, orthography, and etymology 2 Major theories of truth 2.1 Substantive theories 2.1.1 Correspondence theory 2.1.2 Coherence theory 2.1.3 Constructivist theory 2.1.4 Consensus theory 2.1.5 Pragmatic theory 2.2 Minimalist (deflationary) theories 2.2.1 Performative theory of truth 2.2.2 Redundancy and related theories 2.3 Pluralist theories 2.4 Most believed theories 3 Formal theories 3.1 Truth in logic 3.2 Truth in mathematics 3.3 Semantic theory of truth 3.4 Kripke's theory of truth 4 Notable views 4.1 Ancient history 4.2 Medieval age 4.2.1 Avicenna 4.2.2 Aquinas 4.3 Modern age 4.3.1 Kant 4.3.2 Hegel 4.3.3 Schopenhauer 4.3.4 Kierkegaard 4.3.5 Nietzsche 4.3.6 Whitehead 4.3.7 Nishida 4.3.8 Fromm 4.3.9 Foucault 4.3.10 Baudrillard 5 In medicine and psychiatry 6 In religion: omniscience 7 See also 7.1 Major theorists 8 Notes 9 References 10 External links [Roger Clough], [[email protected]] 12/17/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-13, 16:21:16 Subject: Re: the truth of science and the truth of religion On 12/13/2012 2:48 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:33 PM, meekerdb<[email protected]> wrote: >> >On 12/13/2012 9:46 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> > >> >So I have no conflicts with science as long as I keep in mind what >> >kind of truth is referred to. >> > >> > >> >There is one truth. Let us search it. >> > >> > >> >There are many true propositions, but I don't think they can be collected in >> >a coherent 'one truth'. > Perhaps the one truth is that there are many possible inconsistent truths, > but only one set of consistent truths for each of us, or for each universe, > whatever.(;<) Dear Richard, I agree! How these truths are woven together is of considerable interest, as such is that ToE's attempt. -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
