Truth
Teaching Assistant: Patrick Mooney
Writing 2
Spring 2015
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 15 April
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.
there are universal truths as well.
change with discovery and knowledge
influences, such as social culture.
relative or factual.
measured from personal perspective– i.e. , offense (
from each individual person’s perception)
the sky is blue
not a lie(again, perspectival,
in the eye of the beholder)
person to person, based on experiences, time period, social setting, current knowledge
can be factual
undisputably correct
easier to disprove facts than to prove that a statement is absolutely true
influenced by own knowledge and experiences
are not necessarily mutually exclusive