Can anyone refute this definition of 'truth'?

Read "Civilization and its Discontents" by Sigmund Freud

@mars90000000,

One of our leading newspapers has a headline about depression costing the economy £11, 000,000,000.

Which should cause an increase in depression I should think. Freud hadn't thought of liberal media.

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@spendius,

Though I swear that if they added up all the differing 'disease/illness/allergies' they have, and the cost to the nation - the total would top the GDP.

Had the same though with percentages of different illnes/allergies/diseases that they quote - every single person would have multiple problems.

Sometimes I think it's all just in the head of scientist/economists.

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@vikorr,

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Sometimes I think it's all just in the head of scientist/economists.

Where else would they get the idea to numerically represent illness and disease? It's like a sick benchmark to try and compete against.

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@vikorr,

vikorr wrote:

Hi JL,
Someday I may be tempted to read Nietzsche.

Do it when you can tell the difference between antidote and poison...

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@Pemerson,

Pemerson wrote:

Truth is already within us, we remember it when we lift from our minds all those "answers" handed down to us by parents, schools, religion, etc. etc. etc.

There is a lot we learn before anyone can tell us anything, before we can reason, and before we have any reference... There is much in life we never forget and yet can't quite remember...

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@Fido,

Sweating the small stuff can drive a body nuts. Probably everyone around that person, too. We just try, try, try. Writing it down helps one discover "what worked" and it can take a lifetime, or a season.

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@The Pentacle Queen,

The Pentacle Queen wrote:

It's not my own, I think I read it on here actually. It is:
'Truth is what works.'

Why not...?

Truth is reality.

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@Krumple,

So if it doesn't work it's not truth, and if it doesn't work it's because it's inconsistent with reality. So reality trumps truth; the latter is "what works", but it only works if it--I hate to say it--corresponds to reality. Pragmatists reject the correspondence notion of truth (cf. Rorty and Davidson videos provided earlier by Fresco). Reality is what is, truth consists of propositions about what is. Please, somebody clarify this relationship. It's too late for me to work on it.

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Nothing like a montage of images and sounds...

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@Procrustes,

I want those three minutes of my life back, procrustes Wink

The only one that wasn't a moron was the 13 year old.

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@The Pentacle Queen,

Now I'm glad my computer couldn't download it.

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@The Pentacle Queen,

Now I'm glad my computer couldn't download it.

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@The Pentacle Queen,

I would say that is true. Wink

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@The Pentacle Queen,

'Functions' not 'works'. It should clearly state. Work is not a perpetual requirement for living organisms capable of building machines, the Gods and the universe bend to your 'truth' .. I advise you, be careful.

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@nothingtodo,

Incoherent pontification ?

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@fresco,

Well, we give them a chance.

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@The Pentacle Queen,

What is "what works"? How do we arrive at that? Consensus? Agreement with reality? Both? Something else?

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@The Pentacle Queen,

And I don't think a definition can be refuted, only rejected. This occurs when a conclusion is drawn that is contradictory or self-refuting based upon that definition.

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@nothingtodo,

truth is never what function, this is totally exhibitin the person who is sayin that
what function is for smthg else how can it b the end then or the source or the reason or the fact constant

truth is always other way, bc more simplified out of everything
what matter is only what is never related to anything nor everything, it matters bc new or superior

what exist is beyond what not exist, this is where what exist is true

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