Philosophy about Truth

1. SEARCH
FOR
TRUTH!!!
By: Jerald R. Renico

3. LET ME POSE QUESTIONS!!!
• ANO BA ANG TOTOO?
• ANO BA ANG KATOTOHANAN?
• MAY LANGIT BA?
• MAY IMPYERNO BA?
• DITO BA TALAGA ANG MUNDO MO?
• TOTOO KA BA?

4. THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH!
• VARIED AND WIDE
• WHY PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT
– RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
– MORAL/ETHICAL STANDARDS
– WORLDVIEWS
– IDEOLOGIES

5. AS A HUMAN?
• ARE WE HAPPY HAVING
DIFFERENT AND CONTRADICTING
IDEAS AND BELIEFS?
• DO WE SEEK SOMETHING THAT
WE CAN UPHOLD IN COMMON?

6. PLATO’S ALLEGORY IN CAVE

7. THREE REQUISITES FOR TRUTH
• TRUTH MUST ADMIT ITS OPPOSITE.
• TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD ARE
PROPERTIES OF BELIEF
STATEMENTS.
• TRUTH DEPENDS UPON INDEPENDENT
FACT. TRUTH AS AN ‘OBJECTIVE’
PROPERTY OF STATEMENT, IS
INDEPENDENT OF THE MIND.

9. THEORIES ABOUT TRUTH
• A STATEMENT IS TRUE
IF IT CORRESPONDS
WITH REALITY.
CORRESPONDENCE THEORY

10. THEORIES ABOUT TRUTH
• A STATEMENT IS TRUE IF IT COHERES
WITH ALL TRUE STATEMENTS.
• TWO STATEMENT ARE CONSISTENT IF
THEY ARE BOTH TRUE AT THE SAME TIME
AND DO NOT CONTARDICT EACH OTHER.
• A THING IS CONSISTENT IF IT REMAINS
THE SAME EVEN IF IT PLACED IN
DIFFERENT SITUATIONS.
COHERENCE THEORY

11. THEORIES ABOUT TRUTH
• IT IS TRUE IF IT WORKS.
PRAGMATIC THEORY

13. SOLIDARITY VS OBJECTIVITY
• IS VIEWING AND/OR
JUDGING SOMETHING AS A
UNION OR FELLOWSHIP
ARIAING FROM COMMON
NATURE, CHARACTERISTICS
AND INTEREST.
SOLIDARITY

14. SOLIDARITY VS OBJECTIVITY
• IS VIEWING AND/OR
JUDGING SOMETHING AS
A PARTICULAR/DEFINE
OBJECT.
OBJECTIVITY

15. THERE IS NO BASIS IN CONSIDERING SCIENTISTS AS
RATIONAL WHILE HUMANISTS ARE NOT BECAUSE:
• TRUTH IS UNIVOCAL
• SCIENTIST AND HUMANIST ARE BOTH
RATIONAL
• SOLIDARITY AS REALITY IS FOUND IN
MANY THINGS, IN DIFFERENT
CONDITIONS THAT WHEN ANALYZED
IN ITS RELATION TO THE PARTS, MAY
REVEAL THE TRUTH.

16. …whatever is TRUE, NOBLE, RIGHT, LOVELY,
ADMIRABLE, -if anything is excellent or
praiseworthy- think about such things.
Whatever you have LEARNED, RECEIVED,
HEARD or SEEN- PUT IT INTO PRACTICE.
(Philippians 4:8)