The Importance Of Truth By Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is the best singer of all time. That is the truth. Now, wait a minute. Am I serious? Yes, I am. That is my belief, and I believe in it with a burning passion. Some people might share my belief. However, most people I know would think this statement is a complete joke. Why is that? I have learned from my many years of living on this planet called Earth that people have different beliefs that they consider as truth. But how do they get the truth? Students of all ages attend school to discover truth. In school, history taught me that George Washington was the first president of the United States, and biology taught me that the mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell. Is this the truth? Just because I can flip open a 1,000-paged …show more content…
The view of Hume, which is called empiricism, claims that truth is derived from experiences, either by direct observation or by experimentation. For example, we had to do an activity in class where we rank the truthfulness of a knowledge claim. I got the knowledge claim that drinking alcohol is unhealthy, and it will lower a person’s life expectancy. I immediately circled the ten on the truth ranking scale, knowing alcohol is bad for a person and there is no way that it could be healthy in any way. Most people in my group agreed with me, and we got an average score of approximately eight. As I walk up to the front of the class to show the class our concerted decision, I was baffled by the claims made by Mr. Hubbard. He told the class that there were empirical studies that have shown that drinking alcohol actually increases one’s life expectancy. I thought to myself. Was my whole life a lie? How could this be possible? Throughout my whole life, I was told that if I drink alcohol, I would die a young man. Now I am a moderate drinker. I am just kidding, but this shocking revelation changed my perspective. My individual belief that drinking alcohol was bad went from a truth to a lie. It only took a matter of seconds for it to happen. However, I will question studies, like the one Mr. Hubbard used, that try to produce truth using empirical ways. How reliable were the studies? It is known to humans that our sense perception is unreliable because our senses trick us into seeing and hearing things that are not real. Optical illusions can show how our eyes are lying to us. I have first-hand experiences about unreliable sense perceptions every single day. Ever since I can remember, I was diagnosed with hearing impairments in both of my ears. What I hear is not the