Truth paradox

Truth paradox [+ favourites]

Is it possible that by recognising reality an individual, or a collective, changes the truth by recognising the past truth? Thereby making truth time variable.

My example is this:

Let us assume Freud was entirely correct in his pshycological assmuptions of childhood experiences make us what we are etc.

By some of use knowing this; we have the ability to conciously change what we were by this recognition and so change what was true into something which is now not true.

Where does this put theory in terms of universal truth, if it exists?

""No words""

I believe there is no universal truth- that there is no one truth. This is a post-modernist approach. And that the actions taken as a consequence of our experiences are socially constructed.

"The summit is just a halfway point"

what is 'universal truth' anyway?

We are all born and we will all die. Do you disagree?

"Speak out, even if what you have to say is unpopular"

no

Universal truth means that everyone agrees with one truth.

However I disagree. First of all, you have to put some context into how you define truth or if there is universal truth. I believe in relativism which states that the meaning and value of human beliefs and behaviors have no absolute reference to truth. I'll explain this....
Each person has their own, personal, truth. Truths in the human sense are ever-changing. Truth varies between person to person. It is always dynamic depending upon one's knowledge and growth. Truth depends on your culture, religion, education, governments and the media. Moral truths are socially constructed. It is all ethically confusing, and therefore impossible to put truth as one.

I like this quote:
"What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding." — Friedrich Nietzsche, On truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

"The summit is just a halfway point"
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For the better said it earlier:

" the whole is a process, not always just a product."

""No words""

can you extrapolate on that please?

"The summit is just a halfway point"

Check out how this came about:

http://www.captaincynic.com/thread.php3/thrdid=47708-u-frmid=12

Then any questions; ask.

""No words""