What is Truth? | Episode 1405 | Closer To Truth 

This channel is the greatest gem I found on youtube so far. Don't think I will find anything like it soon. Robert's way of questioning things, evaluating possibilities and calmly gathering knowlede by sharpening his intellect and setting foot on all kinds of paths WILL get him closer to truth.

Dr. Kuhn’s 5 Questions about #Truth he presents at the end are a good starting point for anyone wishing to understand this topic more fully.

"The more one thinks about things, the scarier they are." You can't say it more succinctly than that!

When Robert finally finds it, he's gonna ascend into the ethereal dimension lol. I hope he comes back to tell us about it.

I really liked the exchange between Kuhn and Tallis when discussing Relativism. I'd like to see a full video of them debating that. The John Hawthorne conversation was tough to view.

I disagree with Shermer. Natural selection selects for those that assume the rustling in the grass is a predator not because that is the assumption that is "right" more often, but because that is the assumption that increases the likelihood of survival. The rustling in the grass is probably only a real threat to survival a relatively low percentage of the time. Most of the time it really is just going to be the wind or a non-predatory animal or something else that's not a threat. Those that assume the rustling isn't a threat would be "right" a higher percentage of the time, but they would die out much more quickly than those that assume the opposite. So no, natural selection does not favor "seeing reality as it is".

I like Robert Kuhn's final statement in the video: "These questions, even without answers, get us Closer To Truth."

There is no truth from science until there is proof of it by experiment. Apparently, this fact about science is what inclined a hero of science, Richard Feynman to say, 'the only truths we know come from our experiences.' Having lots of similar experiences or doing lots of experiments based upon a theory gets us closer to truth. This program heading towards its 2000th episode is for me, proof that Dr Feynman was so on the ball. Thank you so much, Robert Lawrence Kuhn.

18:44 That's at John's! Great episode as always; I did not expect that so many philosophers would be reductionist about truth given that philosophy is love of wisdom, i.e. some kind of truth. Having a variety of opposing theories about truth does make one feel as if getting a grip on the notion though I must wonder - does it really bring us closer or is it merely a mechanism by means of which we suppress our dread? Anyhow, I do hope to run into you in Oxford next year. Thanks for making sure these episodes are so accessible!

So glad this show exists, it’s so great! Thank you for making it!

This channel has some of the most intriguing videos.

The truth right now is that i watched the documentary and i liked it a lot

Exceptional channel, thanks for providing all this knowledge in a concise manner.

Liked the conversation with Raymond Tallis! that was a great interview :)

Truth is what is. Ultimate simplicity and infinite complexity at once. You cannot argue with Truth, and if you try, then that is Truth.

Glad he mentioned Pilate, it was the first thing I thought of.

Truth is something that is consistent from multiple observations, something that withstands tests consistently without contradictions

I really appreciate and enjoy these videos. I have been a seeker of Truth my whole life. I am unconvinced that Truth can be found. I have well under 20 years left on my docket and no hope of finding Truth. At this point in my life, all I can hope is that reincarnation is not real. I never want to come back to this morass of suffering.

What a treat ! One can never finish learning and expanding on knowledge.What a great period to live despite all our human short comings.We must continue with the search and look closer to Truth.I am totally hooked and inspired by this channel . Greetings from Zūrich, Switzerland

This is the second time I have listened to this episode. I appreciate the depth and breadth of Kuhn's questions and love his summation in the last minutes of the show...questions about the nature of truth. Thanks for exploring truth with all of your guests. It has expanded my questions and solidified my own questions/thoughts/experiences in search of truth.

Truth is elevation to higher states of perception and emotion. Which is why what we feel and think is true is totally different from what is true.

What really starts to trip me up is that external things don’t sound, look or feel like anything because those sensations only exist within myself. We’re very alone inside this mind of ours.

This episode was a perfect opportunity to discuss Heidegger's existential analysis of truth as unconcealment! I wish the episode focused more on continental philosophers' perspectives of truth, but this video was nice nevertheless. An amazing essay of Heidegger's views of truth as unconcealment is in Oxford University's Professor Mark Wrathall's 2010 book, Heidegger and Unconcealment. There is more to truth than coherence and correspondence. There are cases where we use the term truth to describe something as it really is in its essence. For instance, a "true friend." Heidegger's account of truth as unconcealment encompasses all these different perspectives in an incredibly insightful way.

Some people might know the truth, but we should not talk about it because most people can't handle the truth.

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!

truth is subjective its like looking in an art work, its always within our own interpretation and it has nothing to do whether it is right or wrong ,it is the way we perceive ,understand and accept at a certain degree to believe

Great series. Kuhn, your question at minute 10:00: aren't you speaking of skepticism (don't or can't know) instead of relativism (know and it's just my perspective or group's)?

25:00, exactly, you can’t ask what is truth without knowing the answer first

Dude wtf I came to university to learn. They gave me a homework whether if there is an absolute or relative truth and now my existential dread and crisis has worsened

Denis Diderot sums up confirmation bias pretty well: “We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”

I've had many religious experiences. I sought them for years as a means to reach God, as I had been taught to do as a Pentecostal Fundamentalist Evangelical Born-again Christian.

If there's no such thing as truth, Robert will have to start thinking of a new title for his wonderful program :)

I think the more important question is to what purpose? Knowing absolute truth would do what? Inform your decisions? Allow you superior health? Wealth? The capability, and consequent satisfaction, of resolving outstanding questions in science and mathematics? All these things require a profound understanding, an expertise, not a pristine clarity of certainty. That very concept is chimerical, except as it relates to knowledge.

I wish Rorty was still around, he'd be the one to visit !

truth is what you know, and what you know is, what you experience, and what you observe through your own eyes truth or not the truth

I love the irony of Michael Shermer sitting next to a couple of issues of Skeptic magazine and to telling us about all the things that brains do.

There is one ultimate Truth. Science, philosophy and religion are human efforts to look at it. But, they are not able to comprehend or describe it as "he" is beyond every notion. But our efforts need to continue as we get at least closer to Truth.

Please look into the work of Bruce Lipton And Gregg Brayden would love to see interviews with them and your perspective in knowledge questioning everything ???

Ultimate Truth is beyond Objective or Relative Truths.

One thing I know for sure is truth is not just someone's opinion ,if your opinion is questionable you do not have the truth.

Amazing content

“Saying of that which is that it is and of that which is not that it is not”. Aristotle

In truth, truth revolves around existence.

Defining a word. A word we invented. Good luck.

Yes, believing you have agency, a centre, is not a probableistic. ♥️

Truth is the structure of what is.....and it seems to speak to me just a tantalising little bit beyond my periphary of perception.

Ultimate truth shall set you free

Truth is that which is realized to be true.

Amazing content. I wonder why this channel don't make videos on existentialism and Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth is more than one level...there are others

How many books do I need to read to find the truth? Could be a good subject !

I signed up when this was less than 1000 subscribers I'm sure. To see it into the 100 of thousands gives hope to the human race.... well a faint hope.

Truth is illuminating, but what do we do after knowing the truth is the biggest question.

Truth is the will of Existance, a meaning.

If only I knew what I have overlooked! In the meantime I must rely on hope, hope that I will be alive to go to the pub and hope that the pub, beer, and glass will be there.

Under the opinion that facts can, may, and do change, then beneath the reasoning of mathematics, 1 + 1 = 2 demonstrates the existence of absolute truth. So, under this premise, one can say facts change and truth is constant.

The truth is the congruence of thought with reality, and knowledge of congruence means, the knowledge of the truth.

Everybody tells Robert that TRUTH is totally dependant on the observer and its interpretation, but he keeps on questioning. His truth will always be one of doubt and thanks to that this channel exists. There is one thing he hasn't tied up. The personal interpretation of truth is totally coherent with quantum fisics, the observer changes the observed.

There is truth and then there is Truth.

"Clearly" if I say "clearly"..whatever next I say is indisputable! :)

Truth that which comports with reality. Opinions is another thing

Well I’m afraid that not only am I not closer to truth but infinitely further away, as “ truth” itself is in question. ( is there after all any such thing as truth)😢 Makes me wonder how “ closer to truth” means anything at all. If there is not truth, then there is only madness .

What part of a song is the main theme of? I know the composer, but I cant find the song.

*Truth just makes sense in particular cases he says* @ 5:36. That’s true! In the very particular case when it is not a *LIE*

Daaang Ray got him all choked up and started stuttering like he was getting bullied 😂

Hey it’s Pilate’s favorite question. And I made damn sure that that punk washed his hands, to seal his fate.

Truth is reality in time

Great. More people ought to practice the truth sometimes.

I've been looking into "consciousness" this whole year . 2020.

Kṛṣṇa is the ultimate truth. Every reality depends on Kṛṣṇa.

The truth I.S., a word, an image of our illusory way of Thinking

Interesting discussion. There's an interesting new philosophy called Q ism which argues that truth has to do less with character (good vs bad/evil, right vs wrong, reality vs fiction) than it does with purity. In other words, if something is pure it is true. It's the complete absence of bias, existence for what it is.

The concept ‘truth’ is shown to be highly elastic. Human tendencies to fix meaning lays traps for misconception & confusion. The idea that objective truth is only possible in logic & mathematics, that “everything else” is only subjective interpretation, rests on a belief that reality, indeed the world is wholly created by & inside brains. That direct access to the world is not just precluded but impossible. And since it’s been demonstrated that sense perception can be illusory, it appears that truth about how things stand outside of brains can only ever be provisional... But what if advocates of these theses themselves are in the grip of an illusion? What if this is all simply superstition - Nothing more than elaborate conjuring tricks with words? After all, if the rules of these theses are followed, then they are at best just interpretation. And what if the truth of human existence is far graver than the subjective illusion or hallucinated reality being popularly espoused? And that the world, rather than a creation of the human brain, actually facilitates the rise of evolutionary life, of brains, etc.. In this case the internal/external conception of mind can be challenged & the concept truth may be restored to its natural home within the everyday life of human beings where it was born.

True is that wat demonstrably is the same for every person.

The whole is the truth. All. Of which the every part participates. Either a whole of internally related parts or a sum of externally related wholes.

Truth as relative... I like to say truth as RELATIONAL.

Kudos -- 444 Gematria -- 🗽

The absolute Truth is: no discrepancy between the reality itself and our picture of the reality. We differ in our beliefs and opinions which means some of us are closer to the Truth then others. Since the reality is to complex to get a ful knowledge about it during one's life span, probably noone can ever know the ultimate Truth. On the other hand, it's not so terribly difficult to come quite close to the truth about some important fragments of the reality. The reason why so many people fail is, they are not really interested in finding the objective truth, because it always goes along with sacrifices. They search for and accept the Truth only to the point when they stil don't need to sacrifice anything - like almost all of the scientists interviewed in this video. One simple example: in discussions one is concentrating rather on defending one's own position then on analysing the position of the counterpart. (Indeed, there is not enough time for the analysis therefore a discussion is never a good way of searching for the Truth). Even when it's obvious then the conterpart is right one tries to make the own "defeat" less bitter through some linguistic tactics which all together bring us farther back from knowing the Truth. The first thing which has to be sacrificed in discussions is one's own pride.

If I am honest I do not deny the truth. Even so, as it stands right now I do not know what it is.

Robert Lawrence "Si quema o no quema" Kuhn

may not that greatest fear of fooling my self prove to be my greatest fooling -fooling my self into fearing my Self...

simple basic definition of truth: I exist, without your existing nothing could be known. Truth isn't an object, it's something understood. You could say truth is knowing or realizing that which is true,

what we talk about when we talk about truth. There are a couple different types of truth. Mathematical truth (non-contradictory axiomatic systems) Correspondence theory of truth (ie: does this statement match reality) Etc... The important thing here that nobody talks about is: what is knowledge? My theory of knowledge is: in order for us to build a model of reality... every single idea is defined by what category we assign it to. We build in our minds a hierarchy of categories. When we learn, we are modifying the informational content of that hierarchy of categories. Knowledge therefore, is the shape of that logical hierarchy of categories. As long as you periodically sift through your logical category hierarchy, searching for contradictions and modifying the structure of the categories... You will be getting.. closer to truth.

There's a difference of something( Particle physicist haven't concluded that they discover them, dhamma practitioners say they have seen them but I didn't yet). Teaching of Theravada Buddhism mentions about a physical particle named RUPA, as the ultimate building block of everything. What beyond that Nature, that is consciousness. Looking for someone or something, which is more intelligent; it's like searching someone unknown or something unknowon, in the Dark. I went to that dead end (Only fools can have that experience while they alive ). I do not know what beyond that moment is.

Consciousness is truth

Is anything in nature false? No. True and false concepts are indigenous to the mind; the mind is a pattern recognition system. Logic is a pattern of human thought.

Truth is a serious stuff but also the truth cannot be devided ,, the truth is one and god is the ultimate truth

Truth encompasses everything, even lies. So yes, what is truth exactly?

Truth is closer to truth

“The truth is that which runs after truth.” -Lacan

Why so many of these videos end on 26:47 ?

Truth is when the answer is no longer questionable ,if it is still questionable it then should be a majority vote to get closest to the truth.

There is only Truth everything is true even when it is not.

Your first guest is Graham Garden, a 1970’s TV star comedian

The question isn’t exactly clear for me. Does he want to know the definition of the word or is he interested in the things to which the word can be applied ? Because he discovered at least three different meanings of the word in this video and doesn’t seem to be content with that. Each meaning of the word “truth” will point to different things. If he is trying to collapse all three meanings it is no wonder that he’s frustrated.

When still state of mind equally matched with nature, universe state of being is the truth.

Only those things that can be established as fact without interpretation can be said to be true within defined constraints and conditions. For example natural phenomena that are described by equations are in this category. Truth and facts are statistical and conditional. Our beliefs are what is true are based on our interpretation of the types of evidence we have been able to accumulate and our intuition of the truth if our subjective experiences.

All truth is are just constants if the laws of physics were to change tomorrow then they would just be historical facts if formulas changed all the time life would be frustrating. There are two types are truths Structure, elements and ratio And operational, rates and probabilities

It's a concept. Nothing more.

Don't know where I read this: Disciple: "O Master, what is the Truth behind this world and how can I know it?". Master: "My dear, YOU are the Truth that you seek. Since you are already you, there is no knowing."