The Truth About Truth; It’s All a Lie. Truth Part 1
Philosophy of Truth & Reality Introduction. What is truth and how is it better understood?
Philosophy of Truth and Reality Introduction
“Life has never been all Or nothing — it’s all And nothing. Forget the binaries.”
— Jeanette Winterson
True or False?
Truth: the quality or state of being true. At least, that’s how Oxford Languages defines truth. Digging further, researching truth online, and reading the Encyclopedias and University articles, the concept of truth becomes increasingly difficult for the everyday person to comprehend. As a result, we become “truth-bearers” who hold the idea that truth is simply the opposite of false.
The true or false idea may work for many cases where truth is immediately demanded, but it fails to explain complex social situations. And the true and false Duality may be simple, but life itself is not as dualistic as humans often try to make it. So even though we were born from a mother and father, have a right and a left arm, and observe night and day, social issues related to language and behavior are hardly ever black and white.
Furthermore, polarity exists on a battery in the physical world, as the terminals always have a positive and a negative. Likewise, Earth has a north and a south pole exactly as magnets do. Interestingly, we are then told there is a right and a wrong, good and evil, and a true and false in life. Therefore, we are engrained to think that society operates polarized. As a result, humans incorrectly imagine life as the third law of motion that Issac Newton gave us: “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
But when it comes to the sophistication of human language, thoughts, and behavior, no such laws exist. Because human thought is non-physical, it does not follow a set of physical laws as a battery and Earth follows. Instead, humans have psychological thinking practices that we default to, which can lead to unpredictable behavior. However, that’s not to say that we can never predict human social outcomes based on recognizable patterns and habits.
This is my attempt to create a straightforward standard “philosophy of truth,” as there does not appear to be one. I will eliminate much of the incomprehensible language and replace it with comprehensive and practical ideas. And because “truth” is more than a word and difficult to understand at times, it demands to be appropriately assigned a painless set of guidelines.
Although my approach will be broken down into simple terms through this series, truth is best understood by deconstructing it, then reconstructing it back into new and simple terms, as you will read here. This article is not designed to replace current theories about truth. Instead, this article will include some of those theories but rather in an uncomplicated arrangement. That’s not to say all the other concepts about truth are wrong. The truth concept I present here will be in addition to the theories elsewhere and build off of some of them.
With that said, what is true in life, and how do we look at truth if it’s not so dualistically easy? If truth is not so black and white, then what is truly true, and how does Reality fit into the mix? The answer to the previous question lies not in a binary, dualistic, or polarity concept; instead, truth can be better understood as cascading layers.
This is a series piece 1 of 9. Below is the next article.
Layer 1. Personal Truth. Our Lies. Truth Part 2
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