Half-truth

attempt to formulate a sentence with the word “truthful” in it. She looked up at me with inquiring eyes, asking, “What does ‘truth’ mean?” I tried to come up with a definition, something that would make sense. I realized that I couldn’t because truth is a word that had been, unquestionably, a part of my vocabulary my whole life. My mother always told me to tell the truth, and that’s how I learned it. So I sat perplexed, trying to explain to this young girl what a word, that I believed would…

this mindset we are stuck in our ignorant ways, conforming to societies comfortable and lazy methods on the search for truth. Descartes…

Politics hold one truth and that is, there is no simple truth. Political truth is adaptable, mutable and most of all relative. Sometimes it is even absent and even worst sometimes irrelevant. This is difficult for people as it is not the way we live our lives and this is perhaps the reason there is such a big wedge and difference between politics, politicians and people, for most people a sense of honesty underpins the way we deal with each other. Prime ministers ask the public to place their…

Shadows and Truth Plato uses the visual of the cave to help people realize how their senses deceive them and give them a belief system but not knowledge. The images seen on the walls of the cave look like and sound like anything that performers want to portray. This isn’t knowledge. This is a gimmick used by people of authority to control, and maintain people to their liking. It’s an enticing of the senses. So what happens when we look beyond the shadows? The description of the cave and…

senses of reality, seeing, hearing, feeling, and tasting are all to mislead one from discovering the true reality. This truth will explain that reality can’t be good because…

Though he almost gets away with lying, he ends up telling the truth in a situation where the lie was probably a safer thing to say. Finny is also honest when some of the rules that he tries to live by are revealed, one of these being that no one should state their height as five foot nine when actually being five foot eight and a half. Even when arguing with Gene, Finny shows his honesty. He gets caught up in the heat of the argument and tells Gene…

about what we perceive to be factual. The story she explained was about two different people seeing a ball. The ball was orange on one half and green on the other half, so if you asked one guy, he would say the ball was orange and the other guy would say the ball was green, and they would argue with each other because they both thought they were telling the full truth. In reality, they were both wrong, there was a light shining on the ball and the ball was actually red on one side and blue on…

around I realized Ann was not there. My coach took me to the phone they kept in the office. I proceeded to call Ann, then my mom, then my dad; none answered the phone. After calling each multiple times I left a message with all of them: The pool closed half an hour ago and somebody needs to come get me so my coach can go home. I would not want to be Ann right then. My coach was nice to me about staying. She even offered me a kiss -- and showed me the bowl of candies after I made a confused face…

believing game and doubting game are intimately associated through indirection. The doubting game is concentrated on being vigorously skeptic with assertions. By believing that all is false, concentrate all focus to put yourself in a situation to find truth from differing standpoints. The efficient path to finding error in the circumstances is to assume they are erroneous. Under these speculations, one is able to find its shortcomings. The more adamantine a claim appears, the reasons causing…

the overwhelming allure of the security promised by a pre-defined “truth.” The “supersense” that Cipolla evokes provides an appealing, simplistic, and idealistic perception of reality like that provided by the supersense of a Totalitarian power. When Cipolla is hypnotizing an audience member, the narrator states, “Up there we could see his face as he “enjoyed” himself; it was clothed in a broad grin and the eyes were half shut. In a way, it was consoling to see that he was having a…