Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “How do we determine truth?”, Leave a Reply below!
Observe things yourself.
Collect together those observations and reconcile them with one another.
That’s called reason.
That’s the way to know the truth.
As a moving, indefinable solution that we always strive to seek for more.
I believe the relative dependability of any assertion is created by going out and observing the world and always doing your absolute best to try and be certain that you aren’t fooling yourself in any given moment’s observation.
Truth emerges in both these little observations as well as what is discovered by building and testing relationships among as many observations as possible.
We can never really know if something is utterly true, just if it is not true by trying to show that it is not true through experimentation. If we can show that the idea does not match up with reality, we know it is not true. But merely showing that an idea does match up with reality does not necessarily mean it is true, because there could be observer bias coming into play or perhaps the “trend” you’re using to describe reality was only accurate for that one data point, but is not accurate in a broader sense.
The search for truth is characterized by running of many different experiments in order to collect more data and see if the trend seems to fit more parts of reality. The idea is that if it fits a whole lot of reality, it’s probably true, because the rest that you didn’t test is much like what you did.
The scientific method is the best tool yet devised to determine the truth value of claims.
To determine the truth, one should understand what is truth. Once he come out of dilution of pre-conditions, he will understand what is truth.
By starting from the evidence of our senses and looking to reality using reason and logic.
LOL… the answer is in the question. You ask, “HOW do we determine truth?”
Just take out the word “HOW”, and there you have it.
For those who like to subscribe to the “Written Word” supposedly revealed by a Deity 2000+ years ago, I refer to the passage that says “What you bind on earth I will bind in Heaven. What you loose on earth I will loose in heaven. ”
IOW… we have been given the keys to the Kingdom, and we decide what is true or not… binding or not… or, as GWB so buffoonishly stated, “I Am the Decider.”
Now, for those who insist that the world at large be dragged through the stench of mathematical proofs before it becomes “Truth”, you delude yourselves constantly. The most basic elementary science class teaches that the act of measuring alters what is being measured. Your ‘truths” are corruptions and bastardizations of the world at large… and you treat your delusions no less religiously than the aforementioned Bibliophiles.
Religion and science are competing for the very same low rung of the ladder.
Truth is in the apprehension of the event… before forcing it to conform to a reality that you feel comfortable with.
Truth is in motion, and you can’t catch it.
LOLOL….. truth is a trend.
we can TRY to find truth with empirical evidence, and a little bit of watering down