The Importance of Truth Truth matters, both to us as individuals and to society as a whole As individuals, being truthful means that we can grow and mature, learning from our mistakes For society, truthfulness makes social bonds, and lying and hypocrisy break them

Aristotle’s notion of experience plays an important role in his epistemology as the link between perception and memory on the one side, and higher cognitive capacities on the other side It explains how experience grows from perception and memory into a rational capacity, and in what way it provides the principles

He taught his students subjects such as logic, physics, public speaking, politics, and philosophy At this point in his career Aristotle began to study logic and the process of thinking Here are some of Aristotle’s most famous ideas: Syllogism – Syllogism is a type of reasoning

The Latin root word ver means “truth” or “true” This root is the word origin of a fair number of English vocabulary words, including verdict and veracity

Truth is in fact a verified or indisputable fact We just believe as Christians the facts are laid out in the Bible We believe every answer to life and the truth on any topic is laid out in the Bible Jesus was saying to us it is an indisputable fact that I am the Son of God I am the way, the truth and the life

Christ Jesus said, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32)

Jesus, being God, cannot lie and in His life exemplified what it means to be truly human He is the true representation of God and has been from the beginning – the root reality behind all things – the source of all things Jesus, as the incarnate Word of God (John 1:1) is the source of all truth”

A fact is something that’s indisputable, based on empirical research and quantifiable measures Facts go beyond theories They’re proven through calculation and experience, or they’re something that definitively occurred in the past Truth is entirely different; it may include fact, but it can also include belief

The usual test for a statement of fact is verifiability—that is whether it can be demonstrated to correspond to experience Standard reference works are often used to check facts Scientific facts are verified by repeatable careful observation or measurement by experiments or other means