forum for week of 28 November: pragmatism

I agree with "all truths are merely convenient fictions" ("science, like politics, is problem-solving")

All truth is true because society has made them true and because we believe them to be true. Now, one statement may be true in one culture, but false in another due to different perceptions, belief systems, environment, etc. This does not make one statement true or false - it becomes very subjective. Language is another factor that makes me agree with the argument. We explain truth using language; however, no language can be exactly the same. It will not be able to convey a 100% exact explanation using two different languages ( lost in translation ). This then again makes the truth very subjective.

in such cases, truths are defined as true through explanations that makes sense in our own senses. The ultimate end product in calling a statement true may be the same; however, the steps that was taken in order to reach that conclusion may have been different. Truth then will lose it's quality of being true. Therefore, they are merely convenient fictions.