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is there really such thing as truth?
give me ur thoughts
give me ur thoughts
No, there are agreed upon definites in terms of events and people. ie, World War One happened. The Treaty of Versailles was written. Martin Luther King existed.sikhman said:maybe this shouldn't be in this forum and possible in the hobbies social interests forum......
and anyway, of course there is a truth lol
it's true that I wrote this post....
unless you're a epiphenomenalist...
lol, the ee2 student answer, but yeah, that's mainly what i'd say only just a little less .. smartlysonyaleeisapixi said:I think a better question is whether truth can be objective.
In answer to that?
I don't believe so, no.
Post modernism questions the validity of its predecessor modernism, on the grounds it is simply the product of mistaken belief in what human reason is and is capable of. It argues that, while we may believe ourselves to be objective, rational, able to look at and analyse our world to find ‘truth’, this is a delusion. Post modernism asserts that what we claim as objective knowledge or ‘true’ knowledge is merely a way of the empowered to assert social, political, or moral control over others less powerful then themselves. ‘True’ knowledge is decided by the powerful and then access to it is controlled. Post modernism also questions the power of words in ascertaining ‘truth’; we are prisoners of language, and can only know things indirectly, and through words. By doing so we apply our own bias over the meaning and distort truth.
History Extension, actually is where I pulled that from-tal- said:lol, the ee2 student answer, but yeah, that's mainly what i'd say only just a little less .. smartly
mmmm foucault <3lionking1191 said:more like ee1, but ok
foucault's precept is that truth is culture-bound and implicated in regimes of knowledge producing power.
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that's merely an observation. it may be a fact, but is it a 'truth'? the question remainssikhman said:maybe this shouldn't be in this forum and possible in the hobbies social interests forum......
and anyway, of course there is a truth lol
it's true that I wrote this post....
unless you're a epiphenomenalist...
There is your truth and there is my truth and there is your teachers truth.kaz1 said:Of course there is truth. I don't get your question.
Hahaha. Yeahhhhhhh!-tal- said:Oh shit. The perception crap.
quoted for truth.sonyaleeisapixi said:I think a better question is whether truth can be objective.
In answer to that?
I don't believe so, no.
Post modernism questions the validity of its predecessor modernism, on the grounds it is simply the product of mistaken belief in what human reason is and is capable of. It argues that, while we may believe ourselves to be objective, rational, able to look at and analyse our world to find ‘truth’, this is a delusion. Post modernism asserts that what we claim as objective knowledge or ‘true’ knowledge is merely a way of the empowered to assert social, political, or moral control over others less powerful then themselves. ‘True’ knowledge is decided by the powerful and then access to it is controlled. Post modernism also questions the power of words in ascertaining ‘truth’; we are prisoners of language, and can only know things indirectly, and through words. By doing so we apply our own bias over the meaning and distort truth.