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To: Hank Kerchief; betty boop; LeGrande; Alamo-Girl; CottShop; TXnMA; allmendream; hosepipe; metmom
What do you mean by truth?

A complete understanding of reality.

1,058 posted on 06/28/2009 1:18:03 PM PDT by LeGrande (I once heard a smart man say that you canÂ’t reason someone out of something that they didnÂ’t reaso)
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To: LeGrande

My question: What do you mean by truth?

Your answer: A complete understanding of reality.

Then you know no truth?

I doubt you claim to have “complete understanding of reality,” but do you claim you therefore do not know anything that is true?

It is not necessary to know everything about everything to know many true things. The term for all that one knows that is true is “truth.” When one swears to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, they are not swearing to explain everything there is to know (understand) about reality, are they? Does the word truth in that swearing then mean nothing?

Hank


1,062 posted on 06/28/2009 2:53:52 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: LeGrande; Hank Kerchief; Alamo-Girl; CottShop; TXnMA; allmendream; hosepipe; metmom
A complete understanding of reality.

I wouldn't describe it that way. Such a thing is only possible from God's "point of view."

1,069 posted on 06/28/2009 5:43:12 PM PDT by betty boop (Tyranny is always whimsical. — Mark Steyn)
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