2008-05-28, 10:45
#1
För att för en gångs skull citera Bibeln:
Pilatus frågade: "Du är alltså kung?" Jesus svarade: "Du själv säger att jag är kung. Jag har fötts och kommit hit till världen för denna enda sak: att vittna för sanningen. Den som hör till sanningen lyssnar till min röst."
Pilatus sade till honom: "Vad är sanning?"
Jag trodde tidigare att sanning innebar den kunskap som stämmer överrens med verkligheten. Dock läste jag senare vad Immanuel Kant nämnde beträffande detta:
Truth is said to consist in the agreement of knowledge with the object. According to this mere verbal definition, then, my knowledge, in order to be true, must agree with the object. Now, I can only compare the object with my knowledge by this means, namely, by taking knowledge of it. My knowledge, then, is to be verified by itself, which is far from being sufficient for truth. For as the object is external to me, and the knowledge is in me, I can only judge whether my knowledge of the object agrees with my knowledge of the object. Such a circle in explanation was called by the ancients Diallelos. And the logicians were accused of this fallacy by the sceptics, who remarked that this account of truth was as if a man before a judicial tribunal should make a statement, and appeal in support of it to a witness whom no one knows, but who defends his own credibility by saying that the man who had called him as a witness is an honourable man
Så vad är sanning egentligen - finns den ihuvudtaget?
Pilatus frågade: "Du är alltså kung?" Jesus svarade: "Du själv säger att jag är kung. Jag har fötts och kommit hit till världen för denna enda sak: att vittna för sanningen. Den som hör till sanningen lyssnar till min röst."
Pilatus sade till honom: "Vad är sanning?"
Jag trodde tidigare att sanning innebar den kunskap som stämmer överrens med verkligheten. Dock läste jag senare vad Immanuel Kant nämnde beträffande detta:
Truth is said to consist in the agreement of knowledge with the object. According to this mere verbal definition, then, my knowledge, in order to be true, must agree with the object. Now, I can only compare the object with my knowledge by this means, namely, by taking knowledge of it. My knowledge, then, is to be verified by itself, which is far from being sufficient for truth. For as the object is external to me, and the knowledge is in me, I can only judge whether my knowledge of the object agrees with my knowledge of the object. Such a circle in explanation was called by the ancients Diallelos. And the logicians were accused of this fallacy by the sceptics, who remarked that this account of truth was as if a man before a judicial tribunal should make a statement, and appeal in support of it to a witness whom no one knows, but who defends his own credibility by saying that the man who had called him as a witness is an honourable man
Så vad är sanning egentligen - finns den ihuvudtaget?