> Hi,
>
> "brandon fenton" <b_randum@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > There's more than tow sides to every story.There's yours, mine,
> > and the truth, which is nothing more than a perseption
>
> In some cases, there are more than two sides, certainly, but in others
> there are not. Either the man is dead, or he's not, right?
>
> As to the truth, it is not so much "a perseption" (do you mean a
> perspective?) as a model of the world (Objective Reality) which corresponds
> to it (e.g. can predict it) in every way we currently know how to check.
> The capital T Truth, of course, is a totally accurate model, which will
> correctly predict the world even for situations we currently don't know HOW
> to measure.
>
> There is the possibility that two different models of the world will always
> produce the same predictions about the same situations, and both are "true"
> to the extent that we can verify. In such a case, I will concede that you
> could call BOTH "true", however, if they are at all different (and if they
> aren't then it isn't much of thought experiment), I suspect that at some
> time in the future we will be able to eliminate one of them as no longer
> the truth.
or resolve the differences between them.
-Paul Prestopnik