Frank Turek: Does Truth Exist? (LIFE Today / James Robison)

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The author of "I Don't Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist" asks a foundational question about truth.
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The value of subjective truth definitions is rather easy to see when you realize that it's logically possible for two agents to actually have different of the same situation. Both of these representations will be just that - representations - a kind of model of external reality, and what we call truth always refers to a correspondence between statements and our internal model, and not the actual affairs out in reality(which we have no direct access to)

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Although it's pretty straight forward to just agree with Turek here, he doesn't really engage the deep epistemic question. Before you ask does Truth exist, you need to define what Truth is. It turns out that there are relativistic theories of truth. The coherence theory of truth, for example, defines truth in terms of coherence with some set of propositions. This definition allows for subjective truth.

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Frank Turek: Is there truth? And the answer is yes.
Science: There is no such thing as certainty. We cannot be certain 100% about anything.
Frank is a delusional fool, Science is the closest thing we will ever come to truth.

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