What is truth?

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Re: What is truth?

Postby at1with0 » Tue May 17, 2011 10:06 pm

If it doesn't, that would be a foundational property, wouldn't it?
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Re: What is truth?

Postby DIss0n80r » Tue May 17, 2011 10:47 pm

Reminds me of what you've said of absolute truth. :think:
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Re: What is truth?

Postby at1with0 » Tue May 17, 2011 11:15 pm

Yeah... I'm kinda wondering if any logical argument is any less of a word game.
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Re: What is truth?

Postby DIss0n80r » Wed May 18, 2011 12:01 am

Maybe it depends on your POV. Everything could be perceived as a game, in a sense.
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Re: What is truth?

Postby at1with0 » Wed May 18, 2011 9:38 am

While I was cleaning up my junk outside (yes, me), I found a cool little short essay I wrote arguing that truth in the world we live in can't be just binary logic. Is that obvious?
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Re: What is truth?

Postby DIss0n80r » Thu May 19, 2011 5:00 am

More to the point, is it true or false?
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Re: What is truth?

Postby bionic » Thu May 19, 2011 9:42 am

what if it was multidimensional binary logic..so in essence it was binary, but it was multidimentsional and mulitdirectional..so that would make it binary, but, not..because of all it's directions and layers..it makes it binary, but.. more
simple, yet complex
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Re: What is truth?

Postby sandra » Thu May 19, 2011 10:33 am

my golly bionic ....holy goodness lmao :thumbup: :lol:
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Re: What is truth?

Postby bionic » Thu May 19, 2011 11:15 am

I am simply a conduit
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Re: What is truth?

Postby at1with0 » Thu May 19, 2011 12:24 pm

bionic wrote:what if it was multidimensional binary logic..so in essence it was binary, but it was multidimentsional and mulitdirectional..so that would make it binary, but, not..because of all it's directions and layers..it makes it binary, but.. more
simple, yet complex
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Well the argument which I haven't posted ends with the conclusion that there are statements which are neither true nor false, so that opens up quite the can of worms. What you're describing is what's called many-valued logic, of which there are many varieties. There, one is allowed to have truth value sets much more exotic than just {T, F} or {1, 0}.
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