SEARCH FOR

TRUTH!!!

By: Jerald R. Renico

LET ME POSE QUESTIONS!!!

• ANO BA ANG TOTOO?• ANO BA ANG KATOTOHANAN?

• MAY LANGIT BA?• MAY IMPYERNO BA?

• DITO BA TALAGA ANG MUNDO MO?

• TOTOO KA BA?

THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH!

• VARIED AND WIDE

• WHY PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT– RELIGIOUS BELIEFS–MORAL/ETHICAL STANDARDS–WORLDVIEWS– IDEOLOGIES

AS A HUMAN?

• ARE WE HAPPY HAVING DIFFERENT AND CONTRADICTING IDEAS AND BELIEFS?

• DO WE SEEK SOMETHING THAT WE CAN UPHOLD IN COMMON?

PLATO’S ALLEGORY IN CAVE

THREE REQUISITES FOR TRUTH

• TRUTH MUST ADMIT ITS OPPOSITE.

• TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD ARE PROPERTIES OF BELIEF STATEMENTS.

• TRUTH DEPENDS UPON INDEPENDENT FACT. TRUTH AS AN ‘OBJECTIVE’ PROPERTY OF STATEMENT, IS INDEPENDENT OF THE MIND.

THEORIES ABOUT TRUTH

•A STATEMENT IS TRUE IF IT CORRESPONDS WITH REALITY.

CORRESPONDENCE THEORY

THEORIES ABOUT TRUTH

• A STATEMENT IS TRUE IF IT COHERES WITH ALL TRUE STATEMENTS.

• TWO STATEMENT ARE CONSISTENT IF THEY ARE BOTH TRUE AT THE SAME TIME AND DO NOT CONTARDICT EACH OTHER.

• A THING IS CONSISTENT IF IT REMAINS THE SAME EVEN IF IT PLACED IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS.

COHERENCE THEORY

THEORIES ABOUT TRUTH

• IT IS TRUE IF IT WORKS.

PRAGMATIC THEORY

SOLIDARITY VS OBJECTIVITY

• IS VIEWING AND/OR JUDGING SOMETHING AS A UNION OR FELLOWSHIP ARIAING FROM COMMON NATURE, CHARACTERISTICS AND INTEREST.

SOLIDARITY

SOLIDARITY VS OBJECTIVITY

• IS VIEWING AND/OR JUDGING SOMETHING AS A PARTICULAR/DEFINE OBJECT.

OBJECTIVITY

THERE IS NO BASIS IN CONSIDERING SCIENTISTS AS RATIONAL WHILE HUMANISTS ARE NOT BECAUSE:

• TRUTH IS UNIVOCAL

• SCIENTIST AND HUMANIST ARE BOTH RATIONAL

• SOLIDARITY AS REALITY IS FOUND IN MANY THINGS, IN DIFFERENT CONDITIONS THAT WHEN ANALYZED IN ITS RELATION TO THE PARTS, MAY REVEAL THE TRUTH.

…whatever is TRUE, NOBLE, RIGHT, LOVELY, ADMIRABLE, -if anything is excellent or praiseworthy- think about such things. Whatever you have LEARNED, RECEIVED, HEARD or SEEN- PUT IT INTO PRACTICE.

(Philippians 4:8)