Mechanics and truth values

[Use any name]

Just thinking about the way I categorize things and about truth values. Mechanics, as an example, in practice, I would not say is true as any machine in it's motions does not follow an absolute path but ricochets within a confined space. So you get wear and eventually breakage. following this, can you see where I wrote "Mechanics,...,I would not say is true"? Well I see the word true there as ambiguous. I feel these days about truth; that it is more like a sliding scale of how true in a given context, with nothing ever being completely defined.

This helps me to relax. I have been and am still evolving the way I interpret the world.

 

[Adjhart]

hmm...yep.




also, language and symbols do a number on our perception of truth. what is truth when not defined in words?

 

[benzyme]

if you confine your perception of reality in terms of "truth", you're setting yourself for disappointment/disillusionment later.

 

[Use any name]

"if you confine your perception of reality in terms of "truth", you're setting yourself for disappointment/disillusionment later."

Yeah that's what I was trying to get at, but I wanted to lead you through a thought process. I wanted to show that when I had used the word truth I hadn't really defined anything. You could just get rid of truth sure, but you would have to start to define things within more specific contexts. You would have to use the context to recreate what you wanted as if it were true or just true to some degree. I am constantly going through disillusionment with the ideas I create to relate to the world with, its called growth or something. I'm not sure it's possible to just to understand without ideas if you're trying to communicate, just don't identify completely with the ideas.

 

[datdmt]

Mathematics! If we are to speak of truth , it better be explained through mathematics. Any human language can skew any idea in any which way, but mathematics are as unwavering as the laws it describes. Math can describe things beyond our perception and our senses, so it is either a truth beyond our minds or we are dealing with solipsism. However; the problem of mathematics is that it's an ever smaller box to perceive the universe than our minds. Now that I think about it , that's a testament to what mankind knows about the universe...only things that can fit into an extremely small box.

 

[Walter D. Roy]

I think we can know one truth. Or hope to prove this. That there is one truth out there, because we can contemplate the idea of truth. So what that does is show us how our brains are pointing to a concept of truth that goes far beyond what we can determine. But that we can know a truth does exist out there.