paji2 wrote today at 4:25 AM
ullangoo saidThe "self-evident truths" of your declaration are opinions. Of course they are opinions - and that is exactly my point. "Truth" - or what we call truth, is nothing more than an opinion. And, when others agree with our opinion, we call it "verified truth". The opinions we disagree with are "unverified" or even "false, wrong".In the Middle Ages, men might have said, "We hold these truths as self-evident, that the earth is flat, the sun revolves around the earth, men cannot fly." Two of the three cannot be "verified, the third, leaving Icarus out, could be observed. Yet, those were "Truths" to them.Today, we might say, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, the earth is round (more or less), earth revolves around the sun, men can go into outer space, there is life on other planets." Three of the four have been "verified", the fourth is an opinion held by many; it is the "Truth" to them. What, then, is "truth"?