Many people like to philosophize. But only a few are able to operate specific scientific concepts, those who, due to professional duties, should be able to think and explain themselves with philosophical terms and definitions, as well as those who are passionate about this area. For example, the concept of “concreteness of truth” only seems simple and mundane. But this is actually a complex field of knowledge.
Philosophical difficulties
Being and consciousness are the central theme of the science of philosophy. The relationship of these two areas is not only a system of knowledge, but also the life of each person. Moreover, philosophical concepts clearly overlap with everyday life, only people never think about it and use a much simpler conceptual apparatus daily, putting everyday meaning into each definition. But philosophy is a science of the relationship between man and the world, developing certain concepts of such interaction in all manifestations. And therefore, simple, in the opinion of the layman, words in the philosopher's dictionary take on different meanings, more complex, multifaceted. For example, the concreteness of truth is a complex of definitions that make it possible to understand the relationship of truth with the subject and object of cognition.
Truth is not alone
The concept of truth is quite simple and at the same time complicated. If we speak the language of philosophy, then truth is an epistemological indicator of thinking in relation to the subject of thinking. In the definition of "concept of truth" there is a term that is infrequently encountered in everyday life of a simple layman - "epistemological". What does it mean? Everything is simple. Gnoseology is the process of cognitive activity in the relationship of the subject, object and process of cognition. Each definition of philosophy entails other concepts requiring explanation. And here, too, the need for specificity is traced in relation to the subject of study. But, as they say, each person has his own truth, his own truth. That is why philosophy has a functional concept of truth, and concretizes this term in various situations of its understanding. Simple truths are the meaning of every person’s life, they are concrete and everyday, but at the same time infinitely multivariate. Philosophy as a science from the earliest times has been trying to define and designate a worldview, and various trends, each of which claims its own truth, become a new round in the development of philosophy. Truth as a philosophical concept has several types:
- absolute truth;
- relative;
- objective;
- specific.
Each such concept has its own rationale for what is the field of activity of philosophy as a science.
Concrete truth
The essence of truth has been sought by all philosophers for millennia, as soon as people wanted to understand the specifics of what is happening in this world. But, as time shows, it is very difficult to determine the grain itself, probably impossible, because truth itself is a multifaceted thing, depending on many concepts interacting with each other. Its concreteness is determined by the limitation of the field of knowledge to which this truth applies. But the world is unlimited, which means that certainty refers only to a point lying in the plane of the present, and does not pass on, no matter what spheres of life it concerns.
Misconception
Philosophy is an interesting science, if you want to understand the essence of the issues that it is trying to solve. For example, two areas of life - truth and error. They are inextricably linked and at the same time endlessly repel each other. "You are wrong!" - people say to those who, in their particular opinion, understand the essence of the question posed incorrectly. But meanwhile, truth is an objective reality, depending on the subject perceiving it. And therefore, delusion is an unintentional mismatch of reality, based on freedom of choice. Here it is necessary to clearly distinguish what is a delusion and what is a lie. Lying is a deliberate distortion of the truth. Here the moral and psychological principles of society are included in the work.
Two single parts
Delusion and truth cannot exist separately from each other, because the search for truth is a methodical elimination of delusions. Simple truths, which are the basis of the worldview of each individual, are the foundation of global science - philosophy. There is no science without scientists, that means there is no philosophy with its conceptual apparatus without those who know how to operate it correctly. Both truth and error are prerequisites for the functioning of the subject in objective reality. The trial and error method allows us to eliminate errors, moving towards the goal - the truth. But as the millennia of human life on Earth show, absolute truth is ephemeral. But its concreteness at a given point in time and space is the objective reality of the subject. He may be mistaken in perception, but for him the axiom will still be concrete. That is the essence of the search for the meaning of the existence of mankind as a whole and of each person individually - the search for truth makes and allows you to move forward.
What is the point?
The concept of truth is a complex philosophical term. For many centuries, scientific works and works of art have been devoted to him. Someone claims that the truth is in the fault, but for someone it is somewhere nearby. These phrases have become commonplace aphorisms, showing all the uncertainty of philosophical concepts from the point of view of different people. After all, how many people, so many opinions. But the approach to philosophy not as a philistine reasoning about the world order, but as a concrete science with its own conceptual apparatus, technical methods of work, theory and practice allows us to speak about truth from all points of view, as a concrete subject of cognition. This concept is multifaceted, and different areas of human activity allow us to see it from all sides. It is difficult to say that this thought or judgment is the truth. The specifics depends on the point in time and location of the event. The fusion of space and time forms certainty, but life is movement, and therefore a concrete texture can become a relative category, which, by definition, can become absolute if its incontrovertibility is proved. And it can go into the category of delusions if at the next moment the conditions for the search for truth change and it ceases to correspond to them.
What are the criteria for evaluating the truth?
Like any other scientific concept, the explanation of truth has its own characteristics, which distinguish it from error. Based on them, correlating them with the acquired knowledge, we can say what is true and what is false.
Truth Criteria:
- consistency;
- proven scientific;
- fundamental nature;
- simplicity;
- paradox of idea;
- practicality.
Of all these concepts, the main criterion of truth is its practicality. Whether humanity will be able to take advantage of the knowledge gained in its activities or not is its basis. And practice is supported by logic, science, simplicity, paradox and fundamental, creating the concreteness of truth. If knowledge is a concrete axiom, then it grows into relative truth, and then, possibly, into absolute. By the same criteria, error should be separated from the truth.
The truth is somewhere near?
Truth and error are the basis of human life. We take something as an axiom, we find some truth ourselves, somewhere we are mistaken, but we allow ourselves to convince ourselves under the pressure of arguments, and some errors remain with us for life. And precisely in this lies the beauty of mankind, the uniqueness of its subjective and objective reality, existing in time and space. The concreteness of truth forms consciousness and, accordingly, being, because it is not for nothing that the great philosopher Karl Marx said that being determines consciousness. Moreover, he did not mean exactly the material sphere, but the totality of all the facets of the life of a specific person and global mankind. Therefore, truth is something that is always somewhere nearby, you just need to want to know it. Simple, undisguised truth is the basis of life for each of us.
The concreteness of truth is a momentary concept. It’s hard for a person to know what is wrong and what is not. But if at a given moment of time new knowledge meets certain criteria, then the truth is still found! So the philosophical conceptual apparatus can have practical application in everyday life, if you want to learn how to use it. Philosophy, as it turned out, is an applied science. This is an axiom.