Truth: what is it? (was: Re: Praise and gripes about 3.0)

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From: Dimitri Tischenko
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 14:10

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In article <1992Oct1.165220.25206@cube.handheld.com> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes:
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>Per my old-fashioned upbringing, in the (early) fifties, there is truth and  
>!truth.  !Truth == lie.  The statement "...is a lot closer to the truth..."  
>implies the position not the truth, and hence a lie.  I know that is out of  
>sync with the nineties, where truth is more a matter of perception than an  
>absolute, but I'm too old to change.
>
>Jim

Well, !Truth==lie is certainly not true (pun intended!). Because the
question "what is truth" is sometimes impossible to answer. For
example: "There exists another life besides the one on earth" is
this a truth? is this a lie? Maybe it can be both or none?

Just a bit of thinking.

Dimitri
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Subject: Truth: what is it? (was: Re: Praise and gripes about 3.0)
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