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What is the difference between truth and fact?

Posted on Sep 2nd, 2008 by ~C4Chaos : (hyper)linker ~C4Chaos
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 02, 2008:

Relative truth and fact are similar. They require collaboration and a certain amount of consensus. Absolute truth stands on its own.
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~KES : Communicator
about 5 hours later
~KES said

I did a write up on this as well and reading these definitions ties in with my exterior research on truth.  Thanks for this.

1Vector3 : "Relentless Wisdom"
about 17 hours later
1Vector3 said

The more I think about the concept of truth, the less useful it gets, whether relative or absolute. Here are some of my thoughts about Truth, in this blog about Knowing vs the Living Truth, something I wasn't perhaps quite coherent about.

To me, facts are about material reality, and truth is about non-material reality. But the concepts of fact, truth, and reality are highly problematical……

I do agree that truth, if we may use the concept at all, is a collaborative and consensual matter, to at least some extent, perhaps totally…..

Ah, I give up trying to say anything, it all dissolves….. The subject is too vast. So many threads about it already, here in the Community.

Blessings, OM Bastet

Chanin : Fuel Cell Guy
2 days later
Chanin said

Thanks C4

That is the most succinct and coherent delineation of truth vs fact I have ever seen. I was trying to explain this to some one the other day and digressed into example after example. Examples are good to a point, but can confuse the issue too. Your statement is much better to lead off with and then use an example for illustration.

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