Tuesday, September 21, 2010

What is truth - conclusion.

I've been trying to think of a neat short way to wrap this discussion up, but it's not easy. I hope I've convinced you that truth is simply one aspect of reality, and reality depends on information. Different people can be in possession of different information, depending on the frame of reference within which they are working, or perhaps on the speed at which information is capable of moving in their particular circumstances - a blind person, for example has to rely on what they hear, which means that their information may well lag behind that of a sighted person. So there is really no such thing as The Truth - there are Truths, plural, and each truth is as valid (or invalid) as any other. If this makes you feel uncomfortable, you can take solace from the fact that it is unlikely to affect your every-day life. For the most part, we are all working within the same frame of reference, and in general the speed of information is the same for all of us. But it's worth bearing in mind that, in the words of the song - it ain't necessarily so!

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