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To: kosta50
The agreed upon meaning of the word truth is synonymous with fact

They are often used as synonyms but they are different words with different meanings also.

And how do you prove what is not factual? You don't.

Some facts can be proved. It's also proven that all that is true is not provable - Gödel. I.e., the sets of "true" and "provable" are not identities.

And since this has been proven, you'd have to agree that it is "fact."

25 posted on 04/09/2010 9:55:16 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
Some facts can be proved. It's also proven that all that is true is not provable

Like what?

Gödel

Who's that?

28 posted on 04/09/2010 1:05:28 PM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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To: D-fendr
Gödel

One quote from your hero: "I like Islam: it is a consistent [or consequential] idea of religion and open-minded."[Hao Wang (1997), A logical journey: from Gödel to philosophy, The MIT Press, p. 148]

29 posted on 04/09/2010 1:14:33 PM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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