Реферат: Truth II The Only Truth Existing Essay

perception of the earth was thought to be flat. This notion was an established truth to

many because of the sight and sense that people perceived about the earth?s crust. At

one

point, to accept the newer truth that the earth is round, meant that, what one believed

was

true, really wasn?t. And, what if, at some point in the future, we were told by a better

educated group of observers that the earth is not round, but a new shape we?ve never

even perceived before? Would we agree to the scientists? observation that they have,

themselves, agreed to this more accurate shape of the earth?. We would probably

agree to

change our knowledge of truth to the observations of experts. This is an example that,

what we may have once believed to be the absolute truth, may be proven wrong at

any

time. And what we actually know, may not be the truth after all.

Truth may also be refuted through the identified appearance or sense of an object. A

great modern philosopher, Bertrand Russell?s, idea of appearance and reality

explains that

perception of a table and its distribution of colors, shape, and sense, vary with each

point

of view. Commenting on the distribution of color, Russell states that, “It follows that if

several people are looking at the table at the same moment, no two of them will see

exactly the same distribution of colours, because no two can see it from exactly the

same

point of view, and any change in the point of view makes some change in the way the

light

is reflected.” What one person sees the table as green, one might see as red at

another

viewpoint. And what might seem to have color is actually colorless in the dark. What

one