3. ANALYZE THIS QOUTE
“ The truth.’ Dumbledore sighed.
“It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should therefore be treated with
great caution”
-J.K Rowling
4. • A man who lives from his family abroad has been in a state of
coma, sustained by life support from medical equipment for
two months. Doctors have told his friends that he ahs very low
chance of being revived if he take away the life support from
him. It seems that they are left with no their option but to pull
the plug, than to keep him in life support for years.
5. • As per regulations, it is only the family members who are
allowed to consent in pulling the plug. The man’s brother finally
arrived from his home country to give consent. Something
strange happened, however, the moment the brother started
talking to the patient in coma. They noticed that his vital signs
began to stabilize. Days passed and the patient started to shoe
signs of rapid improvement.
6. • The doctors up to this day are unable to explain what had
happened. Friends of the patient say the prayers of his
community was granted. Others says that the presence of the
brother had a healing effect on him. Some doctors say that the
medication must have worked in a way that surprised the
experts in the field. Today the man has fully survived his
condition and is normal as he can be.
7. CONCEPT MAPPING
•Using a meta strips or sticky notes, write
words/concepts related to TRUTH and
OPINION. Organize it through a flowchart
and explain the connections of these concepts
to come up with one concrete definition
8. Activity
Share your thoughts among your group
mates on the real life situation given to
you. Note the difference in your opinions
and examine who do you think is more
correct? Justify your answers and share it
to the class
9. ANALYSIS
1. How did you come up with those opinions?
2. What makes you think so?
3. What is truth?
4. What do we mean when we say something is
true?
10. ABSTRACTION
Many of us assume that truth is a simple term
with a singular meaning. Life in this world
would be a lot simpler if truth only mean one
thing. Life would have been a matter of simply
answering the questions whether the things we
say, read about, and discuss are true or false.
11. •But as reality is superabundantly rich,
truth is just as rich. Unfortunately,
very few of us really understand and
appreciate its richness.
12. If we examine the perspective on truth that
has been dominant in society, we would find
that people mostly equate truth with scientific
truth. We often say that this is based on facts.
13. • Truth in this sense is related to science because it is the
field that delivers knowledge about the natural world. By
natural, we mean here the totality of the physical realm-the
biological world, matter , energy, the human body, human
actions and the like. When we say that something is true,
we usually mean what the scientist mean- that it is verified
in the natural world.
14. Truth understood this way is what
philosophers call objective truths. They
points to descriptions of “states of
affairs” which remain true regardless of
who is viewing them.
15. Some scientists, however point
out that the scientific truth are just
part of just one among the many
ways to understand truth.
17. Objective domain of life
this pertains to the natural world that
maintains a relative independence
from the perspective and attitude of
human being that perceive them
18. Social Domain
“truth” is analogous with (not the exact
equivalent” of a general agreement or
consensus on what is right as opposed to
what is wrong.
19. • The truths in social domains are mostly
products of an “agreement” in society that has
been established over time. Because of time-
honored presence, they become so embedded
in our society such that they are hardly
questioned by anyone.
20. • Knowledge is the clear awareness and understanding of
something. It is the product of questions that allow for
clear answers provided by facts.
• Our knowledge is comprised of ideas and beliefs that we
know to be true.
21. Sources of knowledge
• Analytic faculty
• Thinking and analysis
Reason
• Use of the five senses
Experience
