In order to understand what the "acceptance of truth" means we first must look at the definition of truth. Today truth is mostly regarded to as a statement which accurately tells a state of affairs. A state of affairs is what we accept or define as fact. The Microsoft Bookshelf definition is "Consistent with fact or reality; not false or erroneous." When we take a closer look at the word 'consistent' we find that things are not necessari

This is a good example of the nature of man with relationship to the two 'facts'. There are several reasons for this easy acceptance. The very first one is the fact that unless the man is a very intelligent astronomer he will have no way of testing the number of stars in the universe. In the bench situation the man will simply have to touch the bench and he will find out the truth. Second one is the lack of potential benefit that exists from the man thinking there are the wrong number of stars in the universe or a wet paint on a bench. In other words there is no reason to lie to the man (finding out about the number of stars in the universe) and the person informing (of the number of stars in the universe) would not benefit from misinforming the other man. Though if we look at the bench situation a person might choose to lie about the paint job so the man will not sit in that bench for one reason or another. Last one is the role that the information takes in our life. It does not really matter, to the average man, whether there are 300 billion stars or 30 billion stars. On the other hand it makes a big difference whether there is really paint on the bench or not. It will cause an immediate change in action.

An example of the difference between the two is shown in the anonymous quote:

ly true or false though. It is referring to how close the statement is to the fact. Then we must consider how close the language, state of mind, is to the universal fact, state of affairs. For example the statement "snow is white" will most likely be accepted as the truth. But judging by this definition the statement is only as true as the word 'snow' describes the natural phenomena snow, and the word 'white' describes the actual color white. We notice that language creates a marginal error. A different view is then provided by the pragmatism theories which claim that the truth is a claim providing with a solution to a problem or "

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