When Pilate asked Christ “What is truth?” he didn’t want an answer. The clear implication was that truth isn’t a quantifiable substance.
That’s wrong.
Some folks like to have silly arguments about belief and truth and reality, claiming, to one degree or another, that these things exist only in our heads.
That’s wrong, too.
Some things are true. They are knowable. They can be measured, quantified in some way, verified, observed, taught.
Communication about abstracts is wonderful; it’s how we dream about the future and ponder the past; how we analyze the universes inside ourselves and imagine things greater than ourselves.
Don’t complicate your communication by getting too ethereal, though. If nothing is true and nothing is false, there’s nothing to talk about.
Comments 1
In the infinity-valued logic, things can be more or less untrue, neutral (depends, kind of), less or more true. Like a gray scale of truth. And it depends on context, almost forgot to say that. See, I absolutely trust in believable truth.
Posted 26 Jan 2010 at 5:34 am ¶Post a Comment