NATURE OF TRUTH

DISCUSSANT
MARIVIC M. OSMAN
 THE NATURE OF TRUTH
QUESTIONS
What is the singular most important truth to
your personality?
How do you know that it is true?
Is it true for everyone?
What is truth? (create your own definition)
How can one “know” what is truth?
The search for truth is a worthy journey…
“The unexamined life is not worth living” –
Socrates
Or the life worth living is one which is examined
THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH…

• Helps us make better decisions (see

cognitive biases)
• Strengthens our most personal beliefs
• Helps us understand each other
better, that is, it helps us develop
empathy
 PHILOSOPHY
LOVE OF Wisdom also means the
WISDOM quality of being a good
judgment:
 TRUTH DEFINE AS…

• It is defined as agreement or conformity between the intellect and

reality, between subject and the object.
• a statement about the way the world actually is.
• “The key to wisdom is this- Constant and frequent questioning, for by
doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the
truth.”
~Peter Abelard, 12th Century Parisian Monk and Philosopher
 THREE KINDS OF TRUTH IN PHILOSOPHY

• Ontological truth- It is the conformity of a

thing to the mind.
• Moral truth is the conformity of outward
manifestation or expression of judgement and of
mind. This kind is treated in Ethics.
• Logical truth is conformity to the thing known.
A logical truth is considered by some philosophers to be a
statement which is true in all possible worlds.
Ex. If Drasha is a cat and all cats are mysterious, then Drasha is mysterious.
 NATURE OF BELIEF

• In strict sense it is synonymous with knowledge.

• Belief when used to mean faith in the divinely
revealed truth of God.
• Belief is also used to describe the assent given
to a truth because of human testimony.
 NATURE OF CERTITUDE

• Certitude is the state of mind in which the

mind gives a firm assent to a judgement
without fear of error due to recognize valid
reason.
 TRUTH AS STATIC

• The approach of truth as static is analogous to

peeling an onion where one can go on
peeling each layer one hopefully arrives at its
core essence.
• Truth presume to be perennial, it cannot be
subject to change.
 TRUTH AS DYNAMIC

• Truth as dynamic as man who is it pursuit

of it is also dynamic.
• They want truth which is relevant, truth
which concerns itself with the current
issues of life.
 A MIDDLE GROUND

• If the truth is to be in the middle; it should be

combination of the past, the present, and the
future as well as the ”right mix” of the static
and dynamic.
“Between a thousand yesterdays and million
more tomorrows, there is one today.
 TRUTH APPLIED TO EDUCATION
• Perennialism is a teacher centered philosophy that focuses on the values
associated with reason. It considers knowledge as enduring, seeks
everlasting truths, and views principles of existence as constant or
unchanging.
• Progressivism is a student centered philosophy that believes that ideas
should be tested by experimentation, and learning comes from finding
answers from questions. This philosophy values the scientific method of
teaching, allows individuals to have their own beliefs, and promotes the
interaction of students as valuable to the learning process.