What Is Truth?
What is truth?
Truth is defined as “telling it like it is.”
What is the Law of Noncontradiction?
The principle stating that opposite claims cannot both be true at the same time in the same sense.
This philosopher argued that meaningful ideas must be mathematical truths or based on sense experience.
Who is David Hume?
The argument that the universe had a beginning and therefore had a cause.
What is the Cosmological Argument?
The argument that design implies a designer.
What is the Teleological Argument?
What is the correspondence theory of truth?
Truth can also be defined as “that which corresponds to its object.”
What is the Law of the Excluded Middle?
The logical rule stating something either is or is not.
This philosopher argued that we cannot know the “thing in itself.”
Who is Immanuel Kant?
The law stating everything that had a beginning had a cause.
What is the Law of Causality?
The Greek word meaning “design” used in the teleological argument.
What is telos?
What is absolute truth?
Truth is true for all people, at all times, and in all places.
What are first principles?
Self-evident principles built into reality that allow us to discover truth.
Hume believed metaphysical claims about God were meaningless because they lacked this?
What is empirical verification or sense experience?
The scientific event believed to mark the beginning of the universe.
What is the Big Bang?
William Paley used this object as an illustration for design.
What is a watch?
What does it mean that truth is objective?
Truth exists independent of what people believe about it.
What is a self-defeating statement?
A statement that fails to meet its own standard.
Kant’s philosophy leads to this belief that we cannot truly know reality.
What is agnosticism?
The acronym used to remember the evidence for the universe’s beginning.
What is SURGE?
The principle stating the universe is finely tuned to support life.
What is the Anthropic Principle?
What does it mean that truth is independent of belief?
Beliefs cannot change facts, no matter how sincerely they are held.
What is the Great Commission?
Jesus commanded believers to “make disciples of all nations.”
C.S. Lewis said good philosophy must exist because this must be answered.
What is bad philosophy?
Einstein’s theory supporting the idea that the universe had a beginning.
What is General Relativity?
The theory proposing infinite universes to explain fine-tuning by chance.
What is the Multiple Universe Theory?