In this essay I will discuss whether some ways of knowing are more like than others to lead to the truth. There is no single definition of the truth where every philosopher agrees with. What we can say is that the truth is one of the most important elements in our society which extends from “honesty‚ good faith and sincerity in general to agreement with fact or reality in particular”. Instead of just concentrating on the four ways of knowing‚ language‚ perception‚ reason and emotion‚ I will also
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Al Gore’s documentary‚ "An Inconvenient Truth‚" Last winter‚ it was so warm. It was the time when I could feel that global warming is coming to the world. My friends and other people had a big curiosity that winter was not so cold as usual temperature because the rivers in Korea were not freezing well last year and there were lack of days when we could see the snowy weather. I started to feel that the earth is getting warmer and warmer and have a concern about our earth’s problem as a student
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Always telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relation between people? At first glance it seems very difficult for us to draw a definite conclusion that if the truth is the most significant factor in any relation between people or not because other things such as loyalty‚ good behavior‚ selflessness‚ sensitivity‚ and so forth also are worthwhile characteristics. However‚ after serious consideration we can see that the truth carry more weight than all other factors for the following
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the US Women’s Convention‚ “A’n’t I a Woman”‚ Sojourner Truth fights against the axioms used to define “woman.” In her speech she addresses not only what men say women should have‚ but also what women are capable of and then‚ using herself as an example‚ points out that these are not definitions that fit. She calls out that despite the fact that “women need to be helped into carriages‚ and lifted over ditches‚ and to have the best place everywhere” (Truth 219)‚ these have not been things that have been
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Of Truth by Francis Bacon and A Short Analysis What is truth? said jesting Pilate‚ and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be‚ that delight in giddiness‚ and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting1 free-will in thinking‚ as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind2 be gone‚ yet there remain certain discoursing3 wits‚ which are of the same veins‚ though there be not so much blood in them‚ as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty
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literature “tell the truth” better than other Arts or Areas of Knowledge? Even as children‚ people are on a never-ending quest for “the truth.” Anyone who has witnessed a toddler incessantly ask his mother “Why?” can attest to that. Writers‚ artists‚ and scientists all have methods of finding “truth” and telling it to others. While the standards for what truth can be vary between Areas of Knowledge‚ no Area of Knowledge is significantly more capable of telling the “truth” than another. Since
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Can literature “tell the truth” better than other arts or other areas of knowledge? John Stuart Mill once proclaimed that there are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. This means that one cannot perceive the truth without understanding it. For example one cannot know the truth of Pythagoras’s theorem being that a right angled triangle’s hypotenuse’s square value is equal to the squares of both its other sides. This is because
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rights activist‚ Sojourner Truth expresses in her speech‚ Ain’t I A Woman (1851)‚ that women should have rights given unto them‚ no matter what race. She first supports her claim by recognizing that men say women should be helped through their daily lives‚ yet she has never been helped in any way. She continues by telling of the hardships she faces daily. Although she is facing more than what most white men face‚ she is not classified as a women based on rights in society. Truth establishes an optimistic
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"Important truths begin as outrageous‚ or at least uncomfortable‚ attacks upon the accepted wisdom of the time." From time immemorial‚ important ”important truths” which have the capacity revolutionalising and bettering the condition of the people are often consider as dross‚ outrageous‚ unaccepted‚ or at least uncomfortable to the society at that time. This has been a major setback to our socioeconomic development‚ yet we had lived with for ages and our history is fraught with examples. The
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alternative way to find the truth. Thiopental Sodium received the nickname Truth Serum because its effects caused patients to become very talkative‚ talking about thoughts easily without resistance. While under the effect of the drug the patient may lose his inhibitions‚ but does not lose self-control. So a patient will not tell the truth if he chooses not to. Like in the movie True Lies the character struggles not to tell the truth‚ but eventually gives up and starts to tell the truth. Thiopental Sodium
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