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Concepts of Truth

Concepts of Truth. http://dissectingtheframe.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/a-few-good-men.jpg. JESSEP You want answers? KAFFEE I think I'm entitled to them. JESSEP You want answers?! KAFFEE I want the truth. JESSEP You can't handle the truth !.

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Concepts of Truth

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  1. Concepts of Truth

  2. http://dissectingtheframe.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/a-few-good-men.jpghttp://dissectingtheframe.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/a-few-good-men.jpg

  3. JESSEP You want answers? KAFFEE I think I'm entitled to them. JESSEP You want answers?! KAFFEE I want the truth.

  4. JESSEP You can't handle the truth!

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  7. With this he went out again….

  8. 3 RIDDLES

  9. RIDDLE.1 • A man lives in a tall building • He lives on the 20th floor. • He can use the elevator to go from his apartment to the ground floor. • He cannot use the elevator to get to his apartment from the ground floor. • He can use the elevator to get to his apartment from the ground floor on rainy days.

  10. RIDDLE.2 • A man is driving fast. • He turns right into an alley near his house. • His car hits a boy who is playing football. • He finds out that he has hit his own son. • He takes him to hospital. • The boy needs an operation. • The surgeon looks at the boy and says: “O my God! This is my son!”

  11. RIDDLE.3 • A black man is walking in the middle of one street. • He has black eyes and black hair. He is wearing a black suit and a black shirt and black socks and shoes. • A car comes towards him. • The driver stops in time and does not hit him.

  12. The Correspondence Theory of Truth

  13. Problems • It is a fake certificate • I was once married. I am now divorced. • …………..

  14. The Coherence Theory of Truth

  15. Problems • I used to work for this family. • I was their maid. • The children loved me. • I did not like their mother. • I needed money badly. • I wanted to steal her ring which I finally did. • She found out and we ended up fighting • I killed her.

  16. The Pragmatic Theory of Truth

  17. The Personal Theory of Truth I am married because I think I am!

  18. A Christian Approach to Truth http://mudpreacher.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/cross-silhouette1.jpg

  19. Truth is Absolute! • Why relativism fails? • 1) There are no absolute truths! • 2) Everything is relative!

  20. Truth is absolute • It is unchanging. • It is universal.

  21. Truth in the Bible • Old Testament • In relation to objectively ascertainable facts, where truth is contrasted with what is deceitful and/or false • In relation to the existential and moral, where truth is considered to be an attribute of a person or a person’s actions

  22. Between the Testament • Truth is Intellectual

  23. New Testament • Truth as Personal. • Truth as that which is real and complete as opposed to that which is false and lacking. • Truth as something real as opposed to mere appearance.

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