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	There's No Such Thing as Objective Truth and It's a Good Thing too by Philip Kenneson
		When human beings discover this Truth, picture it faithfully in their minds and mirror it accurately in their language, we say that they have genuine knowledge Moreover, such knowledge is “objectively truth” when its status as true does not ultimately depend on the testimony of any person or group of persons.
		Objective truth is inaccessible.” Had Sire said the concept of “objective truth” was incoherent rather than that such truth is inaccessible, I would be willing to accept his description of my position and stand behind it.
		Too often appeals to the objective truth of the gospel have served as a means for the church to evade its responsibility to live faithfully before the world.
	www.kevers.net /pkenneson.html (4537 words)

	Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript
		Kierkegaard explains that truth is a paradox, in that it is objectively defined as subjectivity, and in that the outwardness of objectivity is also the inwardness of subjectivity.
		Truth may be objectively defined as a passionate inwardness, which may change in depth or intensity according to the experience of the subjective thinker.
		Truth is found in the existence of the subjective thinker, and is more passionately appropriated as the subjective thinker progresses from the aesthetic to the ethical to the religious stages of existence.
	www.angelfire.com /md2/timewarp/kierkegaard.html (1089 words)

	From Relativism and Skepticism to Truth and Certainty
		Truth is "adaequatio intellectus ad rem" or "adaequatio intellectus et rei." (Truth is a "conformity of the intellect to reality" or "a conformity between the intellect and reality.") Skepticism only doubts the possibility of ever knowing the truth of a proposition but simultaneously presupposes that truth would exactly lie in such a correspondence.
		Again, truth is no longer conceived as the conformity of propositions with reality but instead identified with some success that is wholly foreign to the questions of their conformity with reality.
		The truth of propositions is identified with a relationship between beliefs of the subject and propositions, or with the social acceptance of propositions at a certain historical epoch, or with the coherence of propositions in a given system, and so on.
	www.leaderu.com /truth/1truth14.html (5668 words)

	What is Truth
		Today this view of truth is being brought into doubt by certain postmodernist philosophers who claim that the quest for an objective truth that is describable through language is part of the discredited project of modernism, an over-confident approach to knowledge stemming from enlightenment rationalism.
		If all language fails to describe objective conditions, because of its embeddedness in various cultures, then any language used to describe this universal embeddedness would be subject to the limitations of its context, and so fail to describe the universal limitations of all languages.
		Unlike the correspondence view of truth, which seeks objective support for the truth or falsity of statements (whenever possible), relativism offers no means of verifying or falsifying any belief apart from discerning whether one holds the belief or whether a particular culture tends to affirm certain things.
	www.leaderu.com /theology/groothuis-truth.html (2054 words)

	Wikinfo \| Truth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Truth is knowledge which conforms to reality, thus what truth means depends on the corresponding meanings which are used for knowledge and reality.
		Analytic philosophy, which exerted a dominant influence on philosophical discussion of truth throughout the 20th century, commonly begins with a focus on the words and syntax of a sentence, from which an attempt is made to determine its meaningful content, referred to as the corresponding proposition.
		Strawson is the performative theory of truth which holds that to say "'Snow is white' is true" is to perform the speech act of signalling one's agreement with the claim that snow is white (much like nodding one's head in agreement).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=truth (5228 words)

	Lenin: 1908/mec: 4. Does Objective Truth Exist?
		Bogdanov’s denial of objective truth is agnosticism and subjectivism.
		But if there is no objective truth, if truth (including scientific truth) is only an organising form of human experience, then this in itself is an admission of the fundamental premise of clericalism, the door is thrown open for it, and a place is cleared for the “organising forms” of religious experience.
		Bogdanov’s denial of objective truth is an inevitable consequence of Machism as a whole, and not a deviation from it.
	www.marxists.org /archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/two4.htm (2884 words)

	Absolutes and Relativism
		Truth is discovered or it is revealed, it is not invented by a culture or by religious men.
		If all truth is relative than would you feel safe to let your child play with a child molester since that is his truth.
		Truth is not the opposite of falsehood it is the absence of falsehood.
	www.letusreason.org /Apolo1.htm (2108 words)

	Apologetics: Is truth objective or subjective?
		The basis of truth used by Germany was the Darwinian principle of survival of the fittest.
		Truth: is an expression, symbol or statement that matches or corresponds to its object or referent.
		Truth was not subject to your belief but you were subject to the objective truth of gravity.
	www.truthnet.org /Christianity/Apologetics/Truth2 (3079 words)

	Truth
		You enjoy the Truth, but sometimes there is a fascination in its revelation that bewitches you, and you want to know more about that, but you don't want to know about the power of its reaction in you.
		Truth is not only objective, but when people yield their hearts and lives to the Holy Spirit, the Spirit can take this Truth, and incorporate it into their lives until the things which are purely judicial may be brought down to actual living.
		OBJECTIVE -- It is external; apart from self-conscious-ness; an end of action to be reached (not subjective).
	www.goodnewsarticles.com /gg-pg44.htm (1948 words)

	Andrew Moroz's Blog: Who Cares About the Truth? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The most terrifying aspect of Orwell's Ministry of Truth isn't its ability to get people to keep people from speaking their minds, or even to believe lies; it is its success at getting them to give up on the idea of truth altogether.
		The second reason truth is politically important is that one of our society's most basic political concepts -- that of a fundamental right -- presupposes the idea of objective truth.
		The less a government feels the need to be truthful, the more prone it is to try and get away with doing what wouldn't be approved by its citizens in the light of day, whether that means breaking into the Watergate Hotel, bombing Cambodia, or authorizing the use of torture on prisoners.
	www.princeton.edu /~amoroz/2004/09/who-cares-about-truth.html (2860 words)

	Loving the Truth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Your inquiry technique seems to be a new stage in the pursuit of truth, since it is fuelled by both the subjective and objective approaches to reality, and you affirm that the inner knowledge can be even more objective, clear and precise than the outer one.
		In other words, if we use the framework that we are separate individuals in the ordinary world, then objective truth means something different from objective truth in a framework that does not hold such assumptions of separate individuality.
		Objectivity is complete when there is no more separate self to hold biases, which is the same station as recognizing that all the forms of manifestation are forms that our awareness and presence assumes.
	www.ahalmaas.com /essence/loving_truth.htm (8871 words)

	Objective truth - Ginktionary - Ginktionary- Open source faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		1.Is a "truth" based on the phenomenon of expressing a sensible experience independent of an individual thought that is perceptible by all observers.
		Because of the conditions, an "objective truth" is impossible for the human condition.
		In the understanding of what is and is not "objective" one can only say that God does hold the "objective truth" but the best a human can bring to light is a "subjective truth" because all is based on faith.
	www.ginkworld.net /ginktionary/index.php?title=Objective_truth&printable=yes (211 words)

	Philosophy News Service - The truth is subjectivity?
		"Truth is subjectivity." While my main concern here is not what Kierkegaard meant by that claim (in the "Concluding Unscientific Postscript" published under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus), I will begin with a brief explanation of his claim, before moving on to whether the claim has wider application in philosophy.
		If such questions are to be coordinate with the Kierkegaardian question of what constitutes the truth of Christianity, we must be able to drawn a comparable contrast (to K's) between "objective" truths about the world and the subjectivity of a theist or naturalist.
		All of the objective knowledge one may gather about the world itself cannot prove the objective truth of a world-view (nor the objective falsity).
	www.philosophynews.com /PNS/(S(lzsitdvw2cxpjl2yb52y5kjt))/forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=4627 (1180 words)

	William James and Truth
		Purely objective truth, truth in whose establishment the function of giving human satisfaction in marrying previous parts of experience with newer parts played no role whatsoever, is nowhere to be found.
		"Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely.
		Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them" (p.
	www.des.emory.edu /mfp/truth.html (758 words)

	What is truth?
		An absolute requirement for truth is sensations that somehow correspond to an external world which is the same for everyone.
		This idea has practical application in many areas, but using it to prove that there is no objective truth isn't one of them, for it is objectively true that to measure something, it must be compared to something else.
		There is a fuziness to nature, but not only is this fuzziness itself objectively true, any measurement made at accuracies lower than the resolution of the fuzziness (about 1 billionth of 1 thousandth of a centimeter) are objectively true.
	www.msu.edu /user/mcwillia/truth.htm (1116 words)

	Jesus' Peculiar Truth - Holidays
		This truth is not sheer subjectivity, either, for the truth of Jesus is utterly inseparable from him—his life, death, and resurrection.
		So knowing the truth is a matter of being transformed, forgiven, born again before we can acknowledge the lies upon which our lives are based, before we can care to entrust our lives to the One who is the way, the truth, and the life.
		All truth, all truthful living is relative to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
	www.christianitytoday.com /holidays/easter/features/peculiar.html (1682 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Objective truth is abstract, speculative, not changing There is the false hope that the subject can transcend itself with objective thinking.
		88) ‘When the question of truth is raised in an objective manner, reflection is directed objectively to the truth, as an object to which the knower is related.
		When the question of the truth is raised subjectively, reflection is directed subjectively to the nature of the individual’s relationship; if only the mode of the relationship is in the truth, the individual is in the truth even if he should happen to be thus related to what is not true.’ (p.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~brandt/existential/kierk_6.doc (584 words)

	Repsonse to: Truth is Subjective
		Some people will talk about, "my truth and your truth." They'll say, "My truth is telling me so and so while my friend's truth is telling him something different." In her mind what makes her truth true is simply that she believes it is true.
		The person who believes that truth and reality don't really exist believes this view is really true and it is objectively true for everyone whether they realize it or not.
		Partly because He claimed that there is an objective way of salvation outside of our self efforts, that there is an objective truth outside of our minds and that there is real life not just an illusion of life.
	www.newmediaministries.org /Truth/TruthIsSubjective_S.html (996 words)

	Thinking Critically about the Subjective-Objective Distinction
		Careless use of the terms "subjective" and "objective" also leads to odd views in metaphysics, e.g., the denial of material reality (idealism); and odd views in epistemology, e.g., the claim that all statements are equally warranted.
		Or, you might say that your headache is metaphysically objective in the sense that it exists as an event in the history of the world; it is part of the stream of history just like any other event.
		To say a statement is epistemologically objective is not to say the statement is true; it's just to say we could figure out a public method for determining whether or not the statement is true.
	instruct.westvalley.edu /lafave/subjective_objective.html (3772 words)

	Objective Versus Intersubjective Truth
		Although attempts are often made to justify or falsify intersubjective truths rationally, this hardly demonstrates either (a) the global utility of the rational plan versus current practice, or (b) that the rationalists would have reached the same conclusions had they not already been given by tradition the answers to be derived.
		If objective belief is necessary for the motivational impact of objectively false religious stories, then "God is dead", as Nietchze declared, and in terms of interpersonal relationships we are forced to grope around blindly, unable to either properly accept the given solutions or solve the problems ourselves.
		The theory that religions are evolved rather than divinely inspired (or, rather, that divine inspiration is the intersubjective expression of the objective fact of religious evolution), poses an even more ubiquitous attack to those who argue _ad absurdum_ from the intersubjective to the objective or vice versa.
	szabo.best.vwh.net /tradition.html (2452 words)

	The Chronicle: 9/10/2004: Who Cares About the Truth?
		The most terrifying aspect of Orwell's Ministry of Truth isn't its ability to get people to keep people from speaking their minds, or even to believe lies; it is its success at getting them to give up on the idea of truth altogether.
		The second reason truth is politically important is that one of our society's most basic political concepts -- that of a fundamental right -- presupposes the idea of objective truth.
		The less a government feels the need to be truthful, the more prone it is to try and get away with doing what wouldn't be approved by its citizens in the light of day, whether that means breaking into the Watergate Hotel, bombing Cambodia, or authorizing the use of torture on prisoners.
	chronicle.com /free/v51/i03/03b00601.htm (2823 words)

	The Objective Truth? - Torah.org
		To equate that historical truth with a fanciful myth is simply beyond bizarre.
		The founder of Islam may or may not have traveled to heaven, or elsewhere, from Jerusalem; but there is certainly no historical evidence that he ever left the Arabian Peninsula, nothing but sectarian legend behind the claim that he did.
		Journalism, after all, is supposed to be about presenting objective truths, not abetting malevolent lies.
	www.torah.org /features/secondlook/objectivetruth.html (717 words)

	Is there such a thing as Absolute Truth?
		Truth is seen as a personal preference or perception that cannot extend beyond a person's personal boundaries.
		The answer to the question of absolute truth turns out to be very important, not only in drawing religious conclusions, but also in the matter of ethics.
		If absolute truth exists, then when two religious teachings disagree, they cannot both be right, in their own way.
	www.christian-faith.com /philosophy/truth.html (1519 words)

	Objective Truth and Laziness \| Progressive U (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Do by objective truth you mean the laws of science to be obviously true, and that by moral nihilism you believe that everyone defines morality for himself?
		yes, by objective truth i mean the laws of science, the earth being round, the inexistence of god, etc. this does not, however, negate moral nihilism.
		The basic truth that we all know regardless if one has a god, no god, religion, no religion etc. is that we exist and others exist.
	www.progressiveu.org /145930-objective-truth-and-laziness (2068 words)

	Why truth matters. \| MetaFilter
		To those who would say that truth doesn't matter, he points to the mendacity of Bush and argues that in the real (non-academic) world cynicism about truth is a non-affordable luxury if we are to defend ourselves and our country from the ideologues who would sell belief as truth.
		You don't have to be a believer in objective truth to be justified in saying that Bush mislead the public he serves.
		Truth may not be absolute, but that has little to do with seeing that someone is obviouly covering up evidence to push an opposing positoin.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/35466 (5001 words)

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