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Can truth exist without falsehood?

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 week ago

    I dont think so if false is the opposite of truth and natural law always has its opposite 

  • Liz
    Lv 6
    1 week ago

    Jehovah is described as “the God of truth,” and he said of himself: “I do not change.” (Psalm 31:5; Malachi 3:6) About God, Jesus said: “Your word is truth.” (John 17:17) That truth is revealed in the divinely inspired Scriptures, the Bible. It instructs us and equips us “for every good work.”—2 Timothy 3:16, 17.

  • Anonymous
    1 week ago

    Sometimes, especially if God is not watching.

  • 1 week ago

    Can "truth" exist without falsehood?

    It can and the term describing that is called "faith".

    And by the way in any philosophy study bar one we should

    not mix up "truth" with the description "falsehood" (as the

    latter is an obviously staged term and not recommended 

    to be used with truth as something discovered and invented

    - out of nothing if you like (or not).

    The much better philosophy question, and designation is that

    of truth or FALSITY.

    As in objective or subjective we may say (believers in the latter

    who cannot agree on there being a true philosophy environment

    are mistaken).

    As it is undoubtedly true that Philosophy exists as a particular

    entity the question may arise about that entity's presence, and

    it's independent study, what can be worthwhile so to speak. 

    For example it is a subjective and behavioural falsehood to

    say that the entity that is Philosophy has anything to do with

    "definition-ism", and false, common "deceitfulness".

    Preconceived ideas like defining something and calling something

    deceitful is an ordinary (real) part of behaviour which has more

    to do with "faith" than Philosophy. Hence the mistaken connection

    of those behaviours with something like "falsehood" ...for ANY

    term and the behaviour associated with the true writing of such

    can easily be shown to be independent of something like true

    Philosophy entity, a knowledge gathering area.

    For anyone can have a subjective understanding and a learned

    subjective knowledge that is totally different from someone

    else's learned knowledge. Both frequently miss a connection

    with Philosophy-area-study because of some mistake in

    their learned behaviour for example.. learning from a mistake

    previously made by another subjective falsehood. 

    And I think that I have shown previously that "subjective falsehood"

    based on faith such as religious faith have more in common the

    further one goes back in historical evidence so to speak (it can 

    be said both in faithful and secular, non-faith based historical

    evidence..) . That is that it is entirely possible that the mistake

    of learning something wrong (learning that a true Philosophy

    knowledge area doesn't exist) was tacitly agreed between

    subjectives and religions, that a Philosophy knowledge area

    DOES NOT Exist. 

    Fortunately the truth is now that Philosophy and it's truthful,

    environmentally and critically secure knowledge DOES exist

    whether "Subjective philosophers" and the faithfully religious

    philosophy's can agree or not.

      

  • Koo
    Lv 5
    1 week ago

    Falsehood can exist without truth and truth can exist without falsehood. More commonly they both exist but incomplete truth can amount to falsehood when the intent is to deceive. 

  • 1 week ago

    The concept of truth can't exist without the concept of falsehood; they define each other, but truth may be spoken without speaking falsehood. And vice versa. 

  • Anonymous
    1 week ago

    Use some common sense and you aren't clever.

  • 1 week ago

    Of course.  

    Imagine always telling the truth.  Then imagine always lying.

    Always lying would make no sense at all.

    You cant have falsehood without truth.  

    But truth is self-sufficient without falsehood.

  • j153e
    Lv 7
    1 week ago

    Can Light exist without darkness?

    "Light is a Living Spirit;"

    "Beams from Meher Baba;"

    "The Path of the Higher Self;"

    https://www.mothermeera.com/ 

  • 1 week ago

    Of course it can, even though sometimes I think there is an infinite well of stupidity that people draw from.

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