Philosophical-jombie

    In the Truthyard !!   "I promise to tell the truth… the whole truth and nothing but the truth"— The witness, standing at the witness box, does not need to ask the judge which theory of truth. The ancient Greek understanding of truth as aletheia, a problematic word variously translated as "disclosure" or "un-concealedness" is very complicated, and has never been grasped straightforwardly as 'truth as such'. Since we are bombarded with myriad opposing facts and contradictory ideas in our circus-like world, the truth is, as if, lost somewhere in the dazzle and sparkle of fire-play. I told my child that there is a jar on the table, he went and found it there. That is the normal understanding of the truth. The Polish-American mathematician Alfred Tarski famously put that the proposition "snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white in reality. The orthodox versions of truth insist that evidence is evidence, the reality...