One of the essential traits of a       Two and two are four.

wise person is that he is Sentences are bearers of

aware of his ignorance.  truth only:
This means that he knows when they function as
when he knows and when he statements
does not know.  statements and beliefs can be
The first thing that we need to treated independently when
understand about truth is that determining their truth
it is a kind of property whose Fact is something that occurs
opposite is falsity. in the world, and it is what
makes a certain statement
Objective domain, Social
true.
domain, Personal domain
(Domains of truth)
Belief, Statements, Sentences
KINDS OF TRUTHS
(Bearers of truth)
Statement or proposition-
Empirical truth 
refers to a linguistic
 --- is established by means of
expression whose function is
sense of experience
to advance a claim about the
 --- is technically described as
world.
a posteriori which means that
(Characteristic) usually
it can be known after some
expressed by declarative
relevant experience.
sentences and used in their
Example:
normal way to describe
      It is raining.
things It is not a statement if:
Rational truth 
declarative statement is a
 --- is established by means of
command
reason
(Belief) a question, if it used
--- is technically described as
to express a claim is a
a priori which means that it
statement.
can be known before some
are the mental expressions of
relevant experience.
our claims.
Example:
example:
      Five and five are ten.
      Humans are mortal.
Synthetic truth 
 --- extends our knowledge
 --- all empirical truths  Example:
       feeling of great pain
Example: Public truth 
      The table is brown.  --- in principle (the
Analytic truth  occurrence or presence  of
 --- there is no extension of       the necessary conditions)
knowledge be known by 
 --- all rational truths      everyone
 --- definition and identity  ---  empirical and rational
statements  truths
Example:
Example:        my skin is cut and
      The square has four sides. bleeding
      A bachelor is unmarried Subjective truth 
male.  --- is dependent on the
Contingent truth  attitudes, 
 --- is not true  in all possible      preferences or interests of
situations a person 
 --- not always true      or group of persons
 --- empirical truths   --- value judgments
Example:
Example:        Rock music is the best
        The mango is sweet. kind of music.
      The flower is red. Objective truth 
Private truth   --- not dependent on
 --- can only be known by the attitudes, interests 
person who        or preferences
      has the belief or makes --- factual judgments
the statement Example:
      considered to be true             Rock music is one of
 --- the truth of psychological the major kinds 
statement or        of music.
      about one’s own mental Universal truth 
states  --- acknowledge by everyone
 --- objective truths
Example:
Example:      Most Filipinos are
            Rock music is one of hospitable.
the major musical genre or      Juan is hospitable.  
category. (inductive)
Relative truth       Juan is a Filipino. 
 --- acknowledge only by (probable)
some people Disciplinal truths
 --- subjective truths  --- this gives rise to a number
of kinds of truth in different
Example: areas of study
            French is the most
beautiful language in the Example:
world.           religious truth
Certain truth            scientific truth
 --- the truth arrived at through           psychological truth
the            economic truth
      process of deductive
reasoning        
 --- necessary truths

Example:
       
     All humans are mortal.
     Pedro is mortal.  
(deductive)
       
     Pedro is human.  (certain)
Probable truth 
 --- the truth arrived at through
the 
      process of inductive
reasoning