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(Dimitri Tischenko) writes:
> 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?

Whoa.  Dimitri is confusing knowledge with fact.  That 2+2=4 is a true  
fact.  The fact that my 3 year old doesn't know that fact doesn't make  
it a lie for him.

Another life besides the one here on earth either exists or it does not  
exist.  The state of our knowledge about the subject doesn't alter it  
as either a true or false fact.

"Truth" is often conversationally applied to facts (as I have done  
above "2+2=4 is a true fact"), but we also use it to refer to beliefs.
We must be very careful when someone says something is the truth, to  
understand whether they are talking about fact or belief.  And, of  
course, there are those who never made it through sophmore philosophy  
and think that fact and belief cannot be distinguished.

   
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