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To: Hank Kerchief
[ But truth is the attribute that pertains to all true statements. ]

Some truth can be true today and false tomorrow.. i.e. timestamped..
other truth is always true.. "Truth" is not as simple as life..

However life defies definition..

Some say Jesus is truth.. Jesus said he was truth..
To humans; truth may remain all wrapped up in Jesus..
Jesus said, "HE was the way, the truth, and the life.."

Could it/that be TRUE?...

1,078 posted on 06/28/2009 9:40:41 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: hosepipe

“Some truth can be true today and false tomorrow.”

No, that is a mistake. Every true statement is always true. The postmodernists and linguistic analysis tried to put that one over, but all statements are contextual and the kind of argument you are making can only be made by dropping the context.

For example, if someone says, “Harry is still alive” on thursday, when Harry is alive, and Harry drops dead on Friday, someone might say, “the statement, “Harry is still alive,” is no longer true. But that drops the unstated (but understood) context, which is, “On this Thursday, Harry is still alive,” and that statement will be true for eternity because on Thursday, Harry was still alive, and will always have been alive on that Thursday.

Many, possibly most, fallacious arguments come from dropping the context of atatements. The most famous class of such fallacies is Ayn Rand’s identification of the “floating abstraction.”

Hank


1,084 posted on 06/29/2009 7:05:14 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: hosepipe
"Jesus said, "HE was the way, the truth, and the life.."

Could it/that be TRUE?... "

I can't state strongly enough: I have zero doubt that it is absoutely true!

1,085 posted on 06/29/2009 7:19:05 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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