I think that if it make sense, it is true. I don't really believe scientific
truths, I think that science is not there to predict real and truth, science
is there to change culture; Instrumentalist and Realist view is very objective,
actually scientific theory is very subjective. I believe in correspondence
theory, saying that truth is an agreement between a proposition and a fact.
A truth is correspondent to reality, there is a realm of facts that exists
independent of us. Although truth and falsehood are properties of believes,
they depend on the relations of the beliefs to this independent realm of
facts. Whenever we judge, we relate things; we order them. Only when a
sentence expresses relations among worlds that mirror or correspond to
the relations of a complex fact can the sentence be considered meaningful
or true.
To study truth, we must based on many things; the way I study truth is
on history, psychology, sociology and philosophy and science. If we study
history, we could know how things started and you can trace it back to
the absolute level, history help us alot if reality is relative and changed.
Studying psychology can know how people perceive truth and trying to judge
weather it is true or not; is the truth comes from a psychologically ill
person; or past experience developed that kind of truth. Sociology can
let us know what is true for most of the truth are bias through culture,
traditions, and parents etc. Truth mostly comes from a group of people,
we must give away sociological truth in order to search for absolute truth.
Philosophy is the best key towards truth, make us more conscious of something;
Its only a guide line, not to be too gullible is vital. Autonomy is prior
in searching truths.
Dennis Yap Tsong Hsih
