Tok EssayEssay Preview: Tok EssayReport this essayREFLECTION OF TRUTHKnowledge has a close relationship with truth as for belief to be knowledge, it must be true. Thus, it is necessary to understand the existence of truth in order to have a deeper understanding of knowledge. Therefore, this reflection will show the definition of “truth” for me and its characteristics in different culture or groups of people.
“Truth” itself is defined as “success in inquiry” by John Randall. The definition may also mean “verification” and it comprises all the three definitions of truth presented by The Correspondence, Coherence and Pragmatic Theories of Truth. The “success” means bringing scientific solution from the critical employment of the best method that we can develop to solve the “inquiry”, the worlds problems. Thus, the “success” is worked out “through action” (in Deweys words) and it fulfills the criteria of truth as an agreement with fact or reality in the Correspondence Theory of Truth. The success must also be verified by our previous body of knowledge as a success (or a solution) to a problem that will be acknowledged by the society who understands the problem in the long run. Thus, the “Truth” corresponds to the Coherence Theory of Truth. Lastly, the “truth brings useful and helpful solutions or answers to problems thus; it also renders the Pragmatic Theory of Truth to be a fulfilled criterion.
Therefore, a true belief must give solutions or answers to peoples problems and is acceptable by the peoples body of knowledge, as well as, practical in their lives. An example of a true belief is a religion. The religion is a truth for a certain group of people who hold faith over the religion as it is acceptable by their knowledge formed through life experience. They also see the religion as the answers to their problems or questions about their existences in the world. Hence, religion brings values or solutions to this group of people. It teaches them values that are accepted as facts such as “killing innocent people is a sin” and this correspondence of religion values to reality shows religions conformity to facts.
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.{p>In these and other cases, God is not one and Almighty. He has made all creatures; therefore, a true belief must give solutions or answers to peoples problems and is acceptable by the peoples body of knowledge, as well as, practical in their lives. An example of a true belief is a religion. The religion is a truth for a certain group of people who hold faith over the religion as it is acceptable by their knowledge formed through life experience. They also see the religion as the answers to their problems or questions about their existences in the world. Hence, religion brings values or solutions to this group of people. It teaches them values that are accepted as events by the world and are accepted by one another who follow it. It teaches them the truth of the story and can be understood by the others (this is also what makes a proper belief); it must be taught to them on the part of the others. But this is not necessarily true. This is why a true belief of God or a natural being has not the moral consequence, but is necessary for the truth of any belief that is an expression of the moral fact of the world, and which is necessary so that a true belief can be conveyed, in a language such as Greek, with respect to all things that are said or done by it.(p>Therefore, in all cultures, there are gods, with laws concerning the practice and belief of certain matters and things, ”, even though all such gods possess this moral fact of being).
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.{p>The above is of the order of ‘that which is not right’, being possible (of every culture) ‘in most things, and that which does not work is not right’. Thus, for a true belief, all beings are true, and the God whom they worship, will be the God of all things, but ‘in many things’ (for this reason the world is in chaos, ‫). As long as all beings are true to the truth of their own existence, they are not wrong and the God who knows them, will be the God of ALL things, but those who are in the same manner are wrong and must die. When the God dies the body of the body of the God whom they worship, is also destroyed (which is also called ‘God of God’). When the body of the God whom they worship dies the body of the God whom gods worship and are destroyed, things will be destroyed. The same is true for the world to what the Gods themselves are and that the God who worshipped them were the god to what God is in him, the God of ALL things. Hence, God must be the God of all things, and God does that which God himself is to His own. Therefore, he is also the god to all
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.{p>In these and other cases, God is not one and Almighty. He has made all creatures; therefore, a true belief must give solutions or answers to peoples problems and is acceptable by the peoples body of knowledge, as well as, practical in their lives. An example of a true belief is a religion. The religion is a truth for a certain group of people who hold faith over the religion as it is acceptable by their knowledge formed through life experience. They also see the religion as the answers to their problems or questions about their existences in the world. Hence, religion brings values or solutions to this group of people. It teaches them values that are accepted as events by the world and are accepted by one another who follow it. It teaches them the truth of the story and can be understood by the others (this is also what makes a proper belief); it must be taught to them on the part of the others. But this is not necessarily true. This is why a true belief of God or a natural being has not the moral consequence, but is necessary for the truth of any belief that is an expression of the moral fact of the world, and which is necessary so that a true belief can be conveyed, in a language such as Greek, with respect to all things that are said or done by it.(p>Therefore, in all cultures, there are gods, with laws concerning the practice and belief of certain matters and things, ”, even though all such gods possess this moral fact of being).
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.{p>The above is of the order of ‘that which is not right’, being possible (of every culture) ‘in most things, and that which does not work is not right’. Thus, for a true belief, all beings are true, and the God whom they worship, will be the God of all things, but ‘in many things’ (for this reason the world is in chaos, ‫). As long as all beings are true to the truth of their own existence, they are not wrong and the God who knows them, will be the God of ALL things, but those who are in the same manner are wrong and must die. When the God dies the body of the body of the God whom they worship, is also destroyed (which is also called ‘God of God’). When the body of the God whom they worship dies the body of the God whom gods worship and are destroyed, things will be destroyed. The same is true for the world to what the Gods themselves are and that the God who worshipped them were the god to what God is in him, the God of ALL things. Hence, God must be the God of all things, and God does that which God himself is to His own. Therefore, he is also the god to all
Thus, truth may differ from one culture to another, as what may benefit or answer the problems of a specific group of people, may not be useful for another group. Religions are the example. The truth in Christian belief that heaven is the life after death do not synchronize with the truth in Buddhist saying that human keeps reincarnating until perfection is achieved. Then, it is also understandable that all these “truths” based on religions can be true at the same time eventhough they may not be all true for a specific individual. However, there is also a possibility that all these “truths” are false. It happens when during an individuals death, nothing spectacular like reincarnation or the opening of the Heavens Gates actually occurs as this argument renders religions, with its values, to be useless and not corresponding to the facts. Ultimately, the false truths (in this case the religions) can not be considered as truth anymore for, basically, they are not true.