Characteristics of Truth

Teaching Assistant: Patrick Mooney
Writing 2
Fall 2014

These are just some quick notes I took on phrases and major terms that occurred in student group-generated consensus position statements on the question What is truth?, which we discussed in class on 20 October

Alas, I can only type at about 80 w.p.m., so this is all I was able to get down while students were reading their statements aloud.

• Provability?
• Knowability? (Uncertainty)
• Can’t be disproven.
• Collective understandings in context.
• Ambiguity / Perception
• Limited, contextual understandings.
• Multiple understandings.
• Factually correct.
• Belief that may not accurately reflect external reality.
• Universality / mutual understanding that leads to objectivity.
• Varies contextually.
• Open to debate
• A widely accepted fact / Factual
• Observable
• Change over time
• Concrete & honest
• unbiased
• Accepted