What is truth?
DO WE NEED TO LEARN TO THINK SCIENTIFICALLY IN ORDER TO FIND THE TRUTH?What is truth? A question that has undoubtedly endured many hundreds of years of ponderment? So whom am I to ask the question in face of the minds that have gone before me, and even if I decide that the conclusion that I come to is the complete truth, so what, who cares? The fundamental problem with truth is that it's a personal thing that is viewed correctly only from the individuals own perspective. Religion is one of the most universally emotive and passionately debated topics conceivable, peoples own beliefs are monumentally important and cannot for a second be ignored, religion could be described as life's rulebook for those that follow it and to even consider criticising this needs some evidence, some hard proof. Does anybody have hard proof for something intangible, no, and religious beliefs are intangible. So who has the religion? Which religion is true? I certainly couldn't say which was and wasn't, could anybody? Priests and theologists could argue eternally but they could never reach a true conclusion (without divine intervention). So many people may be living by a lie? They continue happily on through there lives without really know
If we can now cast our minds back to the original question that I posed at the beginning of the essay; "what is truth", I don't believe that anybody can answer that question, we all have our own version of truth because we can never ever see things from exactly the same perspective as somebody else, and even if you could see from somebody else's perspective, how would you know, truth is inquantifiable and therefore a wholly unscientific thing, so if truth its self is unscientific then why would we need to think scientifically in order to find truth. ing except for themselves the truth, and nobody is hurt by this Until somebody tries to prove them wrong and wars occur. This is a good example for the quote from Lenin. This essay has raised many questions in my mind about the universe and humans, how we think, why we think and what truth really is, but the essay question asks the question "do we need to learn to think scientifically in order to find the truth?" in answer to this question I conclude yes and no, I think it depends on what you are inquiring about, if for instance I make the statement; "I find the colour purple fascinating", did I think scientifically to come to this conclusion, no I didn't but that is not to say that my way of thinking is not scientific to somebody else, my way of thinking leads me too my truth, thinking scientifically can only answer questions that are in some way measurable and if a question is asked that requires one to quantify beauty then the answer will surely be derived from unscientific, rather, emotive, perceptive thinking. Take Quantum physics for example, people previously believed that the atom could be described in terms of the solar system, with the nucleus in the middle as the sun and the neutrons and electrons orbiting around it, but now it is thought that it is impossible to actually pinpoint the orbiting electrons, only say where they might be through a serious of probabilities, in effect then they could be everywhere at the same time. The essay title poses the question "do we need to learn to think scientifically in order to find the truth?" How though do we learn? And more to the point how de we learn to think scientifically? I might never learn to think scientifically and then how would I ever know what it is to think scientifically, that would be saying that everything I have ever learnt is untrue, but surely just learning these incorrect things shows me that they are true in some way because I have learnt them and if I hadn't then how could I of?I would define "thinking scientifically" as trying to understand, how though could I understand why a symphony by Bach or a painting by Michaelangelo is beautiful, beautiful is a perception and up until now there is no way of measuring perception. An example would be the Holocaust, Hitler through a propaganda campaign absolutely and completely convinced the German public that the Jews were to blame for Germany's problem, we knew that they want, Hitler knew that they weren't but he told the German public that they were and there was nobody significant enough there to tell them otherwise, they believed so vehemently what Hitler said that they killed millions of them, something inconceivable to them only years before. Has anybody ever seen quantified beauty? Is there anyway of measuring beauty other than our own personal opinions, our opinions of course could help to quantify such intangible things such as beauty but we all think differently, if everybody on the planet had the same opinion on something then we would be able to look at it and say "that's why we like that", but there's always an exception to the rule. Truth is a tricky thing, anything could be true, but then somebody else will find something that says that something else is wrong which makes the original thing wrong.
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