What is truth outside of science?
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Truth in science centres on observation and experimentation. You make an assertion and then you attempt to prove it through observation, measurement and/or experimentation. If you are successful the assertion (hypothosis) becomes a truth. On a more day to day level we might approach the idea of truth in the same albeit less formal way. We might suspect such and such is going on and then go to certain lengths to establish that it is.
But people talk of other forms of truth. I have not set out to dispute the possibility of other forms of truth, but to learn about them. I would like a description of any other forms of truth.
there are:
-logical truths (a=a),
-mathematical truths (2+2=4)
-conceptual truths ("all bachelors are unmarried"),
-intuitive truths that do not rely on the scientific method but are immediately grasped ("i’m angry right now/ i’m in great pain")
-maybe interchangeable with ‘intuitive’ in some ways but I would also add truths grasped via the phenomenological method