What is Truth?
S the world supported by an elephant that is in turn supported by a tortoise? Some human beings once believed that it was, and if we take the word "world" to mean the universe, such a \yastement of belief would be difficult to refute, though one might ponder on the size of tortoise required, and what it was that supported Aim. The methods we possess to determine the truth or falsity of statements are considered by Professor G. E. Hughes and J. M. Hinton in an introduction to In Search of Truth, a series of talks in which the question of the attainment of absolute truth is discussed by various speakers, "Perhaps we might begin by saying what sort of thing we think it is, that can correctly be said to be true or false," Professor Hughes says in opening the discussion. "I think we both agree that it is statements, or as some people prefer to say, propositions, that are true or false. Not facts; a statement is true if it corresponds to the facts ... but the facts themselves are neither true nor false, they just are." The truths of science, history and poetry, are considered in the other talks of this series; science by Professor H. G. Forder, history by Dr. Francis West, and poetry by James K. Baxter. In Search of Truth begins from 2YC at 8.0 p.m., Monday, March 25, and later from other YC stations.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 919, 22 March 1957, Page 8
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243What is Truth? New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 919, 22 March 1957, Page 8
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