Реферат: Truth II The Only Truth Existing Essay

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always, liable for self-contradiction. Besides the established truth that we exist, there

are

no other truths that are certain, for the fact that subjective truth may be easily refuted.

Every person possesses his or her own truth that may be contradicting to another

person?s

belief. A truth, or one that is true for all, cannot by achieved because of the constant

motion of circumstances of who said it, to whom, when, where, why, and how it was

said.

What one person may believe a dog is a man?s best friend, another may believe that a

dogs

is a man?s worse enemy. What one may believe is a pencil, to another is not a pencil,

but

a hair pin. Where one may believe that a bottle is an instrument, one may believe is a

toy,

where another may believe is a beverage container. Where one will understand the

moving

vehicle “car,” one might understand “car” as a tree. Our perception of what is true

depends on our own experiences, and how something becomes true for us. Many

circumstances are necessary to derive at one?s truth, whether it is an idea, object, or

language. All perception, besides the perception of existence, is uncertain of being

true for

all individuals.

Every thought, besides the idea that we think, has the possibility that it may be proven

wrong. The author of the article, Knowledge Regained, Norman Malcolm, states that,

“any

empirical proposition whatever could be refuted by future experience – that is, it could

turn

out to be false.” An example could be the early idea of the earth being flat and not the