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To: RFC_Gal
How is truth different than Truth?

Truths are things we know with certainty given our senses can detect the world around us. truths are things we currently believe based on the best evidence available to us at the current time. Truth would be that you exist, and the sun rose from the east and set in the west, truth would be the big bang theory or other scientific theories that may be falsified in the future.
16 posted on 07/16/2006 7:22:50 PM PDT by microgood
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To: microgood
Truth:

This is a word best avoided entirely in physics except when placed in quotes, or with careful qualification. Its colloquial use has so many shades of meaning from ‘it seems to be correct’ to the absolute truths claimed by religion, that it’s use causes nothing but misunderstanding. Someone once said "Science seeks proximate (approximate) truths." Others speak of provisional or tentative truths. Certainly science claims no final or absolute truths.

Source.

17 posted on 07/16/2006 7:33:11 PM PDT by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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To: microgood

On the subject of senses.

My eyes and brain working together tell me that what I am seeing is 100% correct. It isn't, humans have two blind spots that our optical pre/post processing systems work around.


Truth doesn't tell me that a theory might be falsified in the future, science does. It isn't science if it can not be falsified.

Truth doesn't tell me that the Sun rises and sets - science tells me that the Sun appears to rise and set due to the orbiting of earth around said star.

You definition of truth "things we currently believe based on the best evidence available to us at the current time" need a little work.


18 posted on 07/16/2006 7:46:51 PM PDT by RFC_Gal
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