Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. Leonardo da Vinci ” “

Truth

Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci”“

What is Truth?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRuOK80Gv8Y

Definitions of Truth

Truth is defined as…

• A verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like

• Sincerity in action, character, and utterance

• The property (as of a statement) of being in accord with fact or reality

Definitions courtesy of Definitions.com and Merriam Webster

Definitions of Truth

We define truth as…

• Sincerity and action, character and utterance that is in accord with fact or reality

Truth can be linked to our other topics as well:

• Democracy

• Manipulation

• Temptation

• Power

Truth vs. Fact

Fact is defined as…

• An indisputable existence or occurrence

• A piece of information presented as having objective reality

Truth vs. Fact

• Truth is Subjective

• Fact is Objective

Disclosure

• Full Disclosure

• Includes all available facts and provides as complete a truth as possible

• Partial Disclosure

• Does not include all the facts and details

Truth in Law

Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

• Whole truth when dealing with courts and the law

• Partial disclosure can cost you time

• Lawmakers search for the truth

Truth in Media

Media is more lenient on truth than law

• There are some instances where only the partial truth is best

• Media gets a bad wrap for not fully disclosing all facts and for leaving out “boring” parts or fabricating facts to be more “exciting”

• The truth, the partial truth and nothing like the truth…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj5cjKXjT7g

Truth in Religion

Which religion is true?

• We find different truths in religion depending on our faith

• Truth in religion is highly subjective

• There is no absolute truth in religion

Truth and Utility

• Utility in Law• The whole truth and nothing but

the truth to protect innocence

• A piece of information presented as having objective reality

• Utility in Media• Partial truth is used in order to

protect victims

• Two

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• Whole Truth as Partial Truth• Sexting incident

Truth and Social Penetration Theory

Self Disclosure

• When first meeting someone, we only tell partial truths initially

• As we get to know people more, we start to disclose the whole truth

Truth and Facework

Facework

• We all have an image that we want to portray to the public

• Positive Face

• Need for social approval, connection and inclusion

• Negative Face

• Need for autonomy and independence

• We want to maintain our positive and negative face so we tell partial truth in order to preserve positive and negative face

Definitions of Truth

The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly.Aristotle

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