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To: tacticalogic
tacticalogic: "So we have "Truth" as being a something subjective on which there is no general agreement and having no formal definition."

FRiend, it's important to keep in mind that science itself makes no use of, or claims to the words "truth" or "Truth".
Those are reserved for philosophy and theology, and are defined by those disciplines according to their own rules and logic.
In those we sometimes find such qualifiers as "epistimically true", "ontologically true" and "God's Truth".
None of these words have anything to do with science.

Science itself is far too humble to make any such claims.
In science we have only observed facts, confirmed theories plus tons and tons of uncertainties between them.

As to the validity of truth-claims of the various philosophies and theologies, those are matters of some logic and some faith.

Surely, you do not disagree?

1,333 posted on 11/30/2013 5:52:32 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: BroJoeK
FRiend, it's important to keep in mind that science itself makes no use of, or claims to the words "truth" or "Truth".

No, but propaganda does, and that along with the common propaganda tactic of polarization will eventually produce the argument that anything that isn't about truth (or Truth) must be about lies.

1,336 posted on 11/30/2013 9:54:29 AM PST by tacticalogic
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