The truth cannot contradict the truth?
- Yes
- No
- I’m a solipsist: I can’t handle the truth!
- Knowledge is empirical: all truth is fuzzy and conditional.
Can the truth contradict the truth? Is the body of information we call “true” a complete and non-contradictory whole (reflecting the state of the universe, presumably)? If the truth is not contradictory, then logical thought is valid. If it isn’t, then logical thought is invalid and irrelevant - two true premises, correctly reasoned, can yeild a false conclusion.
Or can we only know things empirically, thus generating things which have greater or lesser probability of being true, with more or fewer conditions? In this case, logical thought could still be applied, with the condition that if contradictions arise, our premises can always be invalid in some unforseen way, even if thought to be true and correctly reasoned.
Just trying to gauge the philosophical opinions of the people on this board.