The Philosophy Discussion Forum

Imagine a belief in your mind… then somewhere else in your mind imagine truth… what is the relationship between those things?

Ambivalence and reconciling… what else?

Divinity is like that

Would it help to know the similarities between congruence and contradiction?

About truth/belief… a lot of people have said that “knowledge” is the intersection, but I fail to see that as the entire relationship

Nor is it fully dependent on just truth and belief

Don’t worry, we will find the answers.

I don’t fear there is a threat to knowledge. The devil isn’t that smart…

Some things need to be referenced as a thought to grasp meaning

Some things have to be explained in order to think of

Relationships are the path to knowledge

The alphabet is omniscient

Comparing knowledge with truth and belief looks promising

When given the topics of fully congruent or fully contradictory mental objects, what determines which topic is true? An explanation is a statement or process that makes something clear, understandable, or easy to grasp by detailing the causes, context, or reasoning behind it. It bridges the gap betw...

Impenitent wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2026 7:04 pm anything in one circle, its opposite in the other

roundness abounds

-Imp

That works so long as you don’t have the triple circle Venn diagram with truth, mental objects, and whatever the middle of congruence and contradiction is…

I created a Venn diagram with one circle representing truth and the other representing a mental object. I’m interested in exploring the relationship between these two concepts. I now have a Venn diagram with one circle representing congruence and the other representing contradiction. I’m interested...

Walker wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2026 12:52 pm Any word or concept instantly projects limitations due to binary apprehension, which is likely derived from physical, bilateral symmetry.

I agree. No one wants to think of anything they can’t fully grasp

Walker wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2026 12:52 pm We, and the truth, only exist in relationship.

What is that relationship as far as you see it?

From what I see there are four types of reasoning you go through to find truth… congruence, contradiction, both, and no relationship at all… Obviously these states contradict each other; you can’t have two in full in one thought. So what causes the contradiction on either side? It should look someth...

Some things aren’t proven or stipulated… they are as true as they are false Without a specific concrete example that seems to be baseless. For an example “hello world” isn’t true or false, so it is as true as it is false, and those are null… “The slot machine will dole out tons of coins” is possibl...

Gold.

… the opposite of a juxtaposition

I created a Venn diagram with one circle representing truth and the other representing a mental object. I’m interested in exploring the relationship between these two concepts.