Truth
The best thing about telling the truth is that you don’t have to remember what you said.
Merriam Webster defines truth as 1. the body of real things, events and facts, actuality; 2.the state of being the case, facts, 3. a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality: a judgement, proposition or idea that is true or accepted as truth, the property of being in accord with fact or reality, fidelity to an original or to a standard, 4. sincerity in action, character and utterance.
My mother always said, “whatever is done in secret will come to light”. We hear a lot of talk about the importance of transparency but you can’t actually reach that goal if you don’t have a shared value of truthfulness.
Recently, my daughter told me, ” I can’t trust you to tell me the truth about how you are feeling…..you lie and hide when you are sick or not feeling well to protect me.” Well, we can all justify this position as a parent trying to try to shield your family from the ups and downs of your health issues.
However, I remember the oath you take when you testify. “Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God” as your hand rests on a Bible.
- Identity is the truth of description. A circle is round because we define a circle as round. …
- Axiomatic truth is truth about the system. …
- Historic truth is an event that actually happened. …
- Experimental truth may not have the clear conceptual underpinnings of axiomatic truth, but it holds up to scrutiny.
I feel like everything I see on the news has lost track of the truth. If you look at kinds of truth, you can’t support ethnomathematics- it is not an objective approach to a purely objective subject. Math is a solid truth. There is one right and one wrong answer. If you look at the rewriting of history, that breaches historic truth. I heard a retired black female Vanderbilt professor say that the diversity, equity and inclusion industry were damaging our students, schools and society. They are making a business out of this social topic, being paid high consultant fees and coming up with damaging materials based on critical race theory.
Watching the impeachment proceedings, I agree with Michael van der Veen when he said the House impeachment managers would be disbarred for doctoring evidence in a real trial. This is a pattern we have seen fully on display where half truths and misstatements are publicized and accepted as reality. When they are proven false, nobody apologizes or publicizes their error. They just go onto the next falsehood.
We cannot trust each other and have transparency without a common core value of honesty and truthfulness.
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