Essay on Truth

of ensuring that one’s own party is favoured, even if it is unjust and false for the other party. It can be as far from the truth, but still considered to be legitimate. “…Thoughtful historians began to realize that the arrangements of facts to make history involved subjective judgments and intellectual choices” (McNeill 76). Subjective judgments are ways to twisting the truth, typically to make a fact one-sided and prejudiced. These prejudices evolve into ideals that greatly impact the world.…

Causal arguments are always invalid since there is no guarantee of any truth between the premises and the conclusion of the statement. Causal arguments base their truth on the degree of likelihood or probability as the cause of a certain circumstance. A causal argument asserts that there exists a correlation between the occurrences of two events in a particular situation. It asserts that the occurrence of one event is dependent on the other such that occurrence of “X” happened as a result of…

Since the dawn of time, societies have argued about the origins of true knowledge and whether it was a gift brought forth by a divine power or a direct consequence of self-discovery. Through, the ages, many notable writers such as Plato and Bacon provided their own views on the source of knowledge. In his short story the “Allegory of the cave”, Plato claims that by identifying our identities and breaking through the barriers created by our false perception, we will be able to access that source…

ability to see behind the halfway divider. As a result of the flame, the statues cast shadows over the divider that the prisoners are looking at. Since the prisoners have never known reality other than those shadows, they believe the shadows to be the truth, and if the voices from…

Many characters in stories can be "blinded” by the truth. The answer to their questions may have been clear to us, the audience, but not to the characters themselves. Most of the characters in the Greek play, “Oedipus the King” were "blind", such as Jocasta, Teiresias, and Oedipus. It is often said that even when exposed to the truth, certain people still cannot accept what is presented to them, disregarding of the obviousness of the facts. Oedipus is most definitely a prime example of this…

how obcene they might be. A true war story never fails to tell the truth about the hell that is war. When defining truth one must first differentiate between happening truth and reality. Happening truth is the actions that actually took place at a certain time. Reality is the general truth that encompasses all. Truth is a fact about reality that allows us to look back and see that an action actually happened. When looking at truth in “All Quiet On The Western Front” and “The Things They…

Kurosawa’s more dramatic elements go to work, we begin to sympathize with and feel concern for the wife. Maybe she is telling the truth after all, and Tajomaru’s humor was simply meant to be taken in jest. This is the very conflict, however, that Kurosawa wants his viewers to face. While it is easy to get caught up in a game of pointing fingers and determining the truth, such efforts are futile. Our adopted role as a sort of judge seems even more enticing as we become the magistrate of the film.…

C.E. Ayers once said, “A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.” Ayers brings up an interesting point about telling the truth. There are some occasions on which it is better to lie, such as when it saves lives, when it is kinder, and when it would cause unnecessary harm. One occasion when it is appropriate to lie is when it saves lives. History is brimming with examples of lies saving lives. One of the most famous is when brave individuals in Nazi Germany lied to get Jews to safety.…

and god go hand in hand because of biblical readings and Darwin’s book the origin of species. In my Philosophy class we learn that there are two kind of truths. The first kind of truth is objective truths. A objective truth is when a truth is accepted worldwide. An example of this kind of truth is that trees give off oxygen. While subjective truths is when it is a…

who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!”. Kuyper 's belief in the absolute truth of the Gospel contrasts sharply with the popular idea of relativism. In relativism, no absolute truths exist because people interpret truth differently relative to their cultural, societal, and historical context. In the book Life of Pi, author Yann Martel relates Pi’s belief in…