Objective truth and subjective attempts to define it

What is the truth? Is this phenomenon subject to explanation and definition, and, moreover, does it exist in general? Over these questions, the great minds of mankind have been puzzling over the centuries, and given that almost every one of them came to a conclusion that is different from the others, the notion of truth was never defined.

It is interesting that everyone has his own understanding of the truth, and all that remains for those who do not have their own personal definition is to join a philosophical trend or religion and use the interpretation that it offers. To be objective, we will present in the article all the basic concepts of truth and its types, and then we will conclude: where is its true meaning?

Types of truth

There are several types of this concept, but all their values are relative.

Absolute

Here, truth is understood very abstractly and globally as the source of everything. It seems static and unchanged, but the concept of "eternity" is not included in this definition, which calls into question the characteristic "unchanged." According to this definition, absolute truth is the goal of philosophy and its good, however, along with this, a contradiction is asserted: it can not be understood by reason because of its absoluteness.

Relative

Here, this phenomenon is perceived in the same way as an unreachable instance, but some flexibility in its interpretation is permissible: the relative truth is a reliable knowledge of the present state of the process or phenomenon.

Objective truth

Here it is understood in the form of knowledge of objective facts. In simple words, objective truth is information that does not depend on who thinks about it: it is what it is, its content is preserved, but the form can be changed by the thinker.

Required

This kind of phenomenon is represented in the form of knowledge, which is obtained through the connection of facts through an internal sequence.

Random

These are those true knowledge that are obtained without prior purposeful thinking.

Analytical

It is present when a property that is attributed to an object is contained in itself because of its necessity.

Synthetic

This is a situation that requires additional information when finding the truth.

Concepts of truth

• Classical objective truth

• Correspondent. This definition is guided by journalists in the coverage of events. Here, objective truth is manifested in the form of the correspondence of the expression (description, disclosure) of reality, the correspondence of the thought of reality.
• Authoritarian. Truth as a belief and faith to an authoritative person. It occurs quite often in religions.
• Truth as evidence. Here, this phenomenon is perceived as a clear idea of something.
• Semantic. It introduces a ban on verbal definition, since the utterance of the utterance generates paradoxes.
• The naturalistic. In this theory, truth is an idea that does not contradict the laws of nature, hence, it corresponds to them.

• Non-classical concepts

• Conventional. In it, truth is identified with an agreement. Certainly, this understanding of the phenomenon seems somewhat superficial.
• Coherent. Here objective truth is understood as a property of knowledge: if they are consistent among themselves, then they are true.
• Pragmatic. According to this theory, only what is useful is true. This includes all the knowledge that can be of practical use in the form of improving efficiency or achieving success.

Thus, objective truth has many understandings, and hardly any of them is true. Perhaps because it is so deep a notion that it can not be concluded in any sign system, and its concrete existence is indefinable, because it is only possible between knowledge and the process of cognition?