{"id":13767,"date":"2013-05-21T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholiconnection.com\/2013\/05\/what-is-truth-and-what-is-truth.html"},"modified":"2013-05-21T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T02:30:00","slug":"what-is-truth-and-what-is-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/what-is-truth-and-what-is-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Truth and What is Truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">The question &#8220;What is truth?&#8221; has been asked throughout the centuries and continues to be. However, from a Christian point of view, &#8220;the truth&#8221; can be looked at in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/holy-spirit-leads-to-truth-amid-relativism-pope-counsels\/\">different ways<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Johnny Cash - What is Truth\" width=\"1020\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S0KQWTBljjg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The truth can be seen in the most general definition as a proposition (proposes a state of affairs about the universe usually in the format <i>x<\/i> is <i>y<\/i>) which either &#8216;obtains&#8217; or &#8216;fails to obtain&#8217; in reality. The proposition is the &#8220;truth-bearer&#8221; in communication and the actual state of affairs is the truth itself. Take these examples:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\n<li>A cat is an animal. (Obtains-reflects reality).<\/li>\n<li>There are less than 20 cars in the world. (Fails to obtain-does not reflect reality)<\/li>\n<li>Bill Clinton was a president of the United States. (Obtains-reflects reality)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>A Christian would assert, in addition to all of the propositions that obtain for non-Christians (those above and trillions and trillions more), that<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\n<li>Christ (God) is truth itself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The addition together of all propositions that obtain&#8221; describes God who is full act and no potency.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now before you jump all over me and say, &#8220;Jon you just missed the point of what Pope Francis was speaking about &#8211; truth is a person, not an object,&#8221; consider that Christ claims to be the way, the truth and the life.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Christ is God. God is a person (this proposition requires another line of reasoning which I will leave out). God is the summary of all truth and the absence of all error. Like I said, God, a person is the\u00a0absence\u00a0of all error and the summary of all truth.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Then what does Pope Francis mean to communicate when he says that truth is not an object, but a person? Well actually its a very strong statement advocating Christianity. He is saying that though truth can be viewed as an object, doing so leaves out a proposition which changes the whole ball game&#8211;to possess the fullness of truth you must see the truth as the person of Christ.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Don&#8217;t worry no one will get mad at him, he&#8217;s supposed to say that, he&#8217;s the pope.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question &#8220;What is truth?&#8221; has been asked throughout the centuries and continues to be. 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