what is truth?
Discussion
The sky is blue
The climate has always changed
There are only two genders
9/11 was an inside job lol
the sky is blue because you are told it is, you can be told blues wave length and measure it
I guess the truth is only what we can perceive through our 5 senses. Everything else is just a guess.
Is truth absolute, or can things have a degree of truthiness?
verisimilitude (noun) vĕr″ə-sĭ-mĭl′ĭ-too͞d″, -tyoo͞d″
The quality of appearing to be true or real. synonym: truth.
Something that has the appearance of being true or real.
The quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood: as, the verisimilitude of a story.
truth seems subjective and so too reality
Another one of my beliefs is that the Truth can neither be spoken or written. We cannot think the Truth, but we can feel it.
At best, a human can point to the Truth & this is usually seen through the expression of feeling (art, music, dance, stories, etc). Philosophy attempts to point to the Truth through words & I'm fascinated by this form of expression.
I love Alan Watts description of thinking which points to this Truth. He describes thinking as the manipulation of symbols.