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Fact And Truth – Regarding The Difference Between Them

Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites




Thought experiments (Gedankenexperimenten) are facts in the sense they have a "real life" correlate in the form of electrochemical activity in the brain. But it is quite obvious that they do not relate to facts. They are not a true statement.



A question can be posed: do they lack truth because they do not relate to a fact or are the two facts disjointed? How are Truth and Fact interrelated?



One answer is that Truth value is a shorthand to describe the possibility that an event will occur. If true – it must occur and if false – it cannot occur. This is a binary world of extreme conditions of being. Should all possible events occur? Of course not. If they do not occur would they still be true? Must a statement demonstrate a real life correlate to be true?



Instinctively, yes. We cannot conceive of a thought......


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