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NNY
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NNY asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

Is anything true? anything? ?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    No anything is true. Some things are true and others are not.

    If you mean is there anything that is true in the universe, meaning does truth exist, the answer is Yes. Some things are absolutely true.

  • 1 decade ago

    If you mean your question to be extremely literal, then not much can be proven true. Maths is often considered a truth, however that still relies on a few basic concepts. Something I can say that is true is 'that there is an existence of something somewhere'. Because we exist, even if the universe was just a thought, the fact that you asked this question proves that something somewhere must have created this dream the universe is, or we actually exist ourself. That sentence is true.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The meaning of the word truth extends from honesty, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular.[1] The term has no single definition about which a majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree, and various theories of truth continue to be debated. There are differing claims on such questions as what constitutes truth; how to define and identify truth; the roles that revealed and acquired knowledge play; and whether truth is subjective, relative, objective, or absolute. This article introduces the various perspectives and claims, both today and throughout history.

    Nothing is true! its all lies! and we are all liars!!

  • 1 decade ago

    In asking a question about truth you are already assuming there is truth.

    If you are truly interested in this line of thought I would consider reading the fathers of the post-modern movement (which is the line of thinking you are embarking on): Foucault and Derrida.

    Foucault would say that all truth is a result of a power relationship being enacted upon you.

    I'm a little more rusty on Derrida so I won't say anything on him right now.

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    1 decade ago

    You seem to be looking for truth in an infinite oxmoronic cycle. Lmao.

    Truth reveals reality.

    1. If nothing at all is true, than neither is this statement.:)

    (Edit: Or that statement, or that statement, or that statement, GOd damn it I love infinity!)

    2. What if everything was true?

    3. Then so would the statement be, "Nothing is true." Back to 1.

  • 1 decade ago

    Not just anything. that would mean that truth is relative to any one who looks at it. which would mean that we couldnt make laws or say that murder is wrong. and without truth- or with everything being truth- the would would collapse into chaos. besides, two opposite points of view cannot both be true. a man can't have stolen from a shop and not stolen from it. he either stole or he didnt.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Classic question and the answer is yes. Anything can be true and it depends from which angle you are looking from.

  • 1 decade ago

    Anything can be true provided you are seeing it correctly. If you don't see it correctly, only some things are true.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    anything has the potential to be true.

    after the "anything" occurs is what determines whether or not it is true.

    it just depends WHEN you are determining what you believe to be false or true.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, anything!

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