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truth
Etymology: AS, treowo
a rule or statement that conforms to fact or reality.
Patient discussion about truth.

Q. If the lie is our truth & living the truth feels fake & unreal how do we persevere to the needed chang there's the real me, good & underdeveloped. there is the worldly me, challenged as all of us probably are. there is the addict me, afflicted half or more of my life, developed & strong. two out of three are tough odds to deal with...

A. the battle against your own self is harsh and there will be casualties. reality is based on your own definition of the world around you, but it also based on how the world defines you. this is your escape from the inner struggle- define yourself and your actions not by your own faulty judgment but by how the world and it's moral judge you.
good luck.

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He shows that, although early analytic philosophy seemed to venture towards the acceptance of conventionalist theories of truth, in fact it has steadily veered away from such positions.
Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics by Docherty, Thomas / Yearbook of English Studies
Forsberg, Delta College, Philosophy Department, 1961 Delta Road, University Center, MI 48710 Alan White, in his book, Truth, considers the three traditional theories of truth, correspondence, coherence and pragmatic, and argues that they can be construed not as three separate theories, but rather as a definition of truth (correspondence) and two tests of whether or not a proposition fits the definition of truth (coherence and pragmatic).
Philosophy. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings) by Michigan Academician
Of the umpteen competing philosophical theories of truth, the most plausible are, in intent or in effect, generalizations of the Aristotelian Insight that "to say of what is that it is, or of what is not that it is not, is true.
Truth, truths, "truth," and "truths" in the law by Haack, Susan / Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
 
 
 
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