chan hearron
@chanstheman · 4:19
The 3 tests for truth.
You. This is a follow up from my last swell about what is truth. How do you know if something is true? There is actually three tests for truth. Now, first of all, truth does exist because to deny that truth exists is a truth statement. So common sense tells us that truth does exist, and that's based on the law of non contradiction. So it let's talk about three tests for truth. The first test for truth is coherence
But we have learned since that that is not the case. And so I don't know what type of thing you're referring to when you talk about quote unquote truth. Right. To me, our understanding is so limited. The tools that we have is limited. The universe is so massive. How do we begin to assert some sort of quote unquote capital T truth about things? Can we check the backyard for the hot air balloon? Yes
chan hearron
@chanstheman · 3:49
You. Hey, Christina. Yeah, I understand what you're saying there. It sounds to me like you're confusing truth with certainty. There are some things that we can claim to know that are true, even though we don't know them with 100% certainty. And that's okay. Like the the example of which you gave about people thought that the Earth was flat
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
We may be closer in our thinking than I originally thought, because what is true to me is temporal. It is relative. Because what is true if we're standing here in 2023, looking back on those who thought the Earth was flat, right? And what is true when we're measuring something or observing something, it's relative to the scale or ruler or whatever it is that we've created. And they're all human created things, and we are finite and fallible