What is the difference between truth and falsehood? Please give examples.?

Truth:

John 1:

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 He was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

Jesus is the Word

John 14:

6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

A lie:

Genesis 3:

4 The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die!

5 “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

The distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description comes into play again, and Russell holds that it is our knowledge by description to which the judgment “erroneous” may be applied. In knowledge by acquaintance, there are no thoughts, no propositions. You might be mistaken about what you are acquainted with, but a truth value judgment can only be made when you express a belief, either internally or externally. Once you have expressed a belief, this is the realm of knowledge by description.

In the face of conflicting opinions, we look for ways to determine what is true and what is false. Before we get there, however, it is essential to be clear about what we mean when we say “This is true” or “This is false.”

According to Russell, any theory about truth must fulfil three requirements:

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A theory of truth must admit its opposite, falsehood.

2

If there were no beliefs, there could be no falsehood, and not truth as correlative to falsehood.

3

The truth or falsehood of a belief always depends upon something that lies outside the belief itself.

It may seem strange to bring in falsehood as a necessary component of a theory of truth, but note that this is a very straightforward and reasonable requirement. If there were no falsehood, then every statement would be true. Therefore, a theory of truth would be rather trivial: Truth is a property of every statement or proposition. In other words, we would not need criteria for truth, because whatever anyone says would be true.

As implausible as this trivial statement may sound, there is a variant of it in popular discourse that is very popular, the statement that the truth is relative. It is a statement that is very appealing, that we perhaps cannot deny, but let us examine it to determine what it is we mean when we say that the truth is relative.

True beliefs do not constitute knowledge until their truth becomes self-evident. The truth of a belief may become self-evident if its truth is evident without the need for any demonstration which is based on the evidence of other beliefs. According to Russell, knowledge is based on acquaintance with self-evident truths. True propositions which are not self-evident may have to be demonstrated to be true by self-evident propositions in order to become objects of knowledge. Knowledge is based on acquaintance with self-evident propositions and with propositions whose truth can be demonstrated by self-evident propositions.

(Bertrand Russell, Theory of Knowledge: The 1913 Manuscript, edited by Elizabeth Ramsden Eames in collaboration with Kenneth Blackwell (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1984), p. 64.

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I cannot give an example. Only you can know the truth when it is spoken. When you hear the truth it will be like a light being switched on inside you. If you think you have heard the truth before, you haven´t, only when you are sure will you know it.

Truth is impossible to determine, truth means that it cannot be proved wrong ever and there is no evidence against it.

If you say that on earth there is gravity, that is truth because if u change the name then the force holding us down on earth which we call gravity would not just disappear.

If the whole universe turns out to be a lie then in the existance we were in, on earth the force that was holding us down still existed in that universe.

There is none. A lie of omission is the same as a deliberate lie. The only time omission is acceptable is if the truth would harm others and that serves no purpose other than to cause pain.

I have asked this question. This is falsehood. You have asked this question, this is truth.

Truth is a statement that agrees with objective reality. A false statement does not.

For example:

True: "Carmen Electra is wicked hot"

False: "Paris Hilton is wicked hot"

hai,

truth is saying or believing things as it is. that means truth is what is natural or everlasting which does not change because of time, place or things etc..

where as false hood is false because it is not natural and it does not withstand the test of time.

read BHAGVAD GEETA u will benefit.

Transiency is false,that which underlies transiency as an undercurrent is Truth.

- "Did you do your homework Timmy?"

If Timmy did his homework and says "Yes, mother.", then he is telling the truth (ie., what is true).

If Timmy did not do his homework and says "Yes, mother.", then he is telling a falsehood (ie., what is not true, or a lie).