Truth can be revealed within media but the truth that is presented is a representation of someone else's truth. It is almost completely impossible to remove one's subjective view from anything let alone their writing because their diction and even syntax can convey their feeling towards a subject. The writer can both consciously and unconsciously omit data which will inevitably sway the readers' views on the matter. It is because of this that the whole truth can never be portrayed in the media unless one has an ample amount of time to research multiple articles about an event.
Truth can be witnessed through sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, but it can be thwarted by filters, distance, perception, *the absence of another sense, and one's past. For example, if one had their eyes closed and was given something that tastes like bacon, one would assume that they are eating bacon, but in reality they could actually be eating fried kelp. Taste can deceive a person. It does not always convey the truth of the situation; fallacies similar to this occur with each sense.
Truth can be framed by our environment such as our ideals, dreams, political views and other beliefs that were constructed by those surrounding us and our surroundings. The probability that someone will adopt the view one looks up to is very likely. If two people are brought up in the same environment it is likely that they will look at life analogously and therefore their truths will be very similar. On the other hand, if someone lives or lived in a different country, they will probably accumulate different perspectives of the topic of truth.
It is in our surroundings that we form biases that prevent us from accepting truths even when presented evidence that discredit our beliefs. We will both intentionally and unintentionally filter the world around us. This narrow view, limits the amount of knowledge we have, and as a result we will never fully comprehend all the truth the world has to offer.
So what is truth? Truth is unique to every person. It is something that is changed and morphed depending on the following factors: media, senses, environments, and biases. Truth is one's intuition and one's undeniable perception on the matter at hand and because of the broad range of truths, many conflicts occurs such as the debate on Israel and Palestine. Everybody has a different truth that they live by because everyone is exposed to the world in a different way. Truth is simply the way one looks at the world around them, and it is different for each one of us.
Truth is what one believes something to be.
*according to Savanna Christy
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school…it is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. – Henry David Thoreau
You touch on humans' predispositions altering our perceptions of the world. This resonates with me, as I think that confirmation bias taints all of our minds. The bacon/ fried kelp analogy was very interesting and different, and I feel it showed that even basic senses can be fooled by preconceptions- not just our minds and patterns of thinking.
ReplyDeleteI like your comments on the fragility of human perception. I think that often people believe that if they see something, then it has to be true, but I agree it is too easy to perceive things wrong. In psychology we learned that eyewitness reports are the least reliable evidence because police can suggest "did the suspect have black hair, did he wear a hoodie?" and change the truth of the witness. It's interesting to see how delicate our perceptions are but how strongly we cling to them.
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