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Truth Is Not Interpretation
There is fact there is fiction and there is in between.
 Scorpion  26 Aug 2008 09:05
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There are only facts and the unknown in this world.
Truth and lies are much different than fact and fiction.
 
 Specter87  29 Aug 2008 18:58
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No matter what your belief, there is still a truth. Even if we live in a matrix style world, where perspective is truth, there is no argument that the truth is still the only truth.
 
 JiM_McG  27 Aug 2008 22:33
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 excellent, excellent point jiM_Mcg
by  Scorpion
 27 Aug 2008 22:53
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I agree that truth is objective and based on absolute fact.

The area between fact and fiction, on the other hand, is based upon wishful thinking and is known as "truthiness".
 
 grokit  27 Aug 2008 01:27
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Yes. There is what you Know.
And What you know is not necessarily what you have read or been told.
 
 keepmindok  27 Aug 2008 00:02
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 that is intelligent Choice described, keepmindok ;-)
by  Scorpion
 27 Aug 2008 06:11
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I'm only saying true because there are indeed some things "true" regardless of interpretation. 2+2 is 4, the earth orbits the sun, etc. I want to point out though that a vast majority of what people claim to be "true" really is up to interpretation, such as claims that a right is inviolable, or that the Bible states something so therefore it must be true with no room for argument. In fact humans seldom trot out the word truth when they're talking about scientifically verifiable phenomenon, they usually only bring it out when they want to push a social agenda.
 
 Grenache  26 Aug 2008 13:35
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 If Einstein had not the ability to think outside the prevailing wisdom outside the box, we would not have the theory of relativity.
by  Scorpion
 27 Aug 2008 06:13
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Technically i can't prove that anything doesn't exist. Since they don't exist there's no evidence of them not existing and thus we cant "prove" they don't.

To you that house is green. To me its blue. Who's telling the truth? Neither of us since definitions are opinion.

I'm not sure what you mean by between?wouldn't that kill the whole truth is not interpretation?
 
 Smito  26 Aug 2008 14:10
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 why no, smito, it does not.
the law for example is the law.
but lawyers interpret the law to make it applicable to a case.

and so it is with truth.
by  Scorpion
 27 Aug 2008 22:55
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Verum the fact of the matter in hand in this debate is the simple interpretation of truth, there is no fiction in that, no matter which way you try and twist it. You can't get blood out of a stone, TRUE?
 
 joe9  26 Aug 2008 11:19
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 Depends where this stone is found.
by  verum
 26 Aug 2008 14:33
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There is fact, fiction, in between, little bit of fact with a lot of fiction, and a lot of fact with a little bit of fiction. The in between can certainly be in favor of one. Shouldn't that be a factor?
 
 verum  26 Aug 2008 10:50
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 but the fiction can be used to display or showcase a truth in such a way as to open up your understanding of truth in a way that just saying the truth baldly as a matter of fact only could not do so.
fiction is then a vehicle for the truth to be told or to be understood, whereas it otherwise would be out of reach for some to understand or to grasp a hold of.
by  Scorpion
 26 Aug 2008 20:43
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