Friday, June 27, 2008

The Truth

Giambattista Vico: "Truth itself is constructed."

Avicenna: "The truth of a thing is the property of the being of each thing which has been established in it."

Aristotle: “To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true”

Gandhi: "Truth is God."

Alfred North Whitehead: "There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that play the devil".

The truth in itself, can never be defined because it is not absolute. What we can only do is to find an approximation to the truth and continue searching for new evidence in a hope to even more accurately estimate the truth.

However, further investigation may lead to new evidence that goes in a totally different direction to the previous approximation of the truth, and things will get really frustrating. It really feel like shit when the scale is imbalanced as you totally have no idea which side is the truth now.

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