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"What I tell you three times is true." (Lewis Carroll) Might this formula – or a more sophisticated version – actually determine what we believe to be true?
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Truth "What I tell you three times is true." (Lewis Carroll) Might this formula - or a more sophisticated version - actually determine what we believe to be true? Plato postulated that there are three characteristics of truth; 1) That it is public, and is true for everyone. 2) That it is independent of anyone's belief, it can be true even if no-one believes it to be true, or false even if many people believe it to be true. 3) That it is eternal - if something is true, then it was and always will be true. However, a statement does not necessarily have to be true for a person to believe it to be true - a statement can be entirely untrue, and yet people can believe in the statement and think it true, shown in criterion 2 of truth. People repeatedly told that something is true can come to believe in it...
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