True or False...

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True or False?

  • True

    Votes: 4 50.0%

  • False

    Votes: 4 50.0%
  • Total voters
    8
Jpec07

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This is a philosophical question my social-studies teacher asked us at the end of the year this year and said that it was our homework over the summer. I've already done it, but I thought it might be interesting to find out what everyone here comes up with. (BTW, the question is True or False). Hav fun!
 
Was your teacher really serious? Both "true" and "false" are adjectives, so they are absolutely meaningless without their adjacent nouns, of which there is obviously no sign of, rendering those two words useless. It is futile to get a "technically correct" answer. And if you were to ask me, I would say True. My glass is half full. :smilewink
 
He was dead serious, and he said that you really just had to have a good answer. Think about it, long and hard. (please note that my history teacher is like Mr. Pheeny from Boy Meets World). I've come to a rather interesting conclusion, but I'll let other people go first.
 
You can think as hard as you want, but as far as I know, on a technical basis, there is no answer, due to the fact that True and False are adjectives, and adjectives require nouns to have any meaning whatsoever. It's like asking you: Blue or Red? Obviously, other than a subjective preference of one color over another, there is no correct answer, if you don't have the noun... Same with True or False... I can have a subjective answer of True, just because I'm an optimist, but it lends no technical accuracy.

I'll shuddup now.
 
To me, "True" has to be assigned, it cannot simply be. Therefore, if there is no assignation (as there appears not to be in the question), then the answer has to be "False".

Basically, what I'm saying is that since your question has absolutely no evidence to suggest that the answer may be true, one is forced to adopt the default position, which is "No", or "False".

It reminds me of a deeply unfunny computer programming joke, which goes thus:

Q: How many PROLOG programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: No.
 
But, using that logic... :

Basically, what I'm saying is that since your question has absolutely no evidence to suggest that the answer may be false, one is forced to adopt the default position, which is "Yes", or "True".

See?

[edit]: And do note that that is a valid statement. You might default to saying that you've already established the fact that it's not true, but there is certainly no evidence either way suggesting that it is true or false. Plus, you originally state that "true has to be assigned"; well, so does false, since, as I stated earlier, they're both adjectives.
 
Its a paradox. It can be neither true, nor false.

thats because we have no idea what we are suppose to judge to be true or false.
 
I voted "TRUE" because I believe that my brain correctly interprets the input of my senses to give me a true picture of reality. The reality we see and experience IS reality, and it exists as we see it. In simple terms: reality is real; therefore - TRUE.

This is because I base my life upon an Aristotlean view of the universe; that is: the reality of the universe is a knowable thing, and only requires continued and careful observation and experimentation in order to eventually be known.

Aristotle's view is in contrast with what I would term the FALSE answer, or the Platonian/Kantian view that we are doomed by our senses and brain to live in unreality as part of the false, visible universe, which conceals the invisible, unknowable, but somehow "true" (by their definition) universe below.

The profound human self-loathing put forth by Plato, Kant, and their followers has kept humanity in the dark ages for thousands of years. Unfortunately, it seems to be the majority viewpoint among people who "think" about questions beyond the purely physical requirements of life.

How's that for a defense of my answer?
 
I FIGURED IT OUT!

The question is "Nothing"
Is Nothing true or is Nothing False.
Does "Nothing" Exist, and it doesn't.
The answer is false!
 
I answered true, but currently I am to lazy (tired) to write down the explaination. One question, how is this an assignment? Or is he just wanting you to exercise your brain?
 
Originally posted by MistaX
I FIGURED IT OUT!

The question is "Nothing"
Is Nothing true or is Nothing False.
Does "Nothing" Exist, and it doesn't.
The answer is false!
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but nothing does exist. its called a vacuum.
 
No, a Vacuum cleans floors.
Nothing is total emptyness.
No force, No Color, Nothing.
 
actually thats semi-incorrect.

there's always something in nothing. gamma rays, quarks, ion particles, uv rays, x rays, blah blah blah.

astronomy techno babble there.
 
Just Nothing!
Without all that.

"Nothing" is hard to think of...
Thats the question. Nothing.
 
Nothing however is not possible, as there always is "something" If there was nothing, nothing would be there, therefor all thought understanding and being would not exist.

As space said there is always something. Be it rays or such. in a vacume there is lots. At the end of that vacume/black hole there is always something.
 
So Therefore The question is false, as Nothing does not exist.
I was right :D
 
Well it depends on how you also interpret true/false. True can mean several things DEPENDING ON THE QUESTION. This is why this question is hard to answer, and solely depends on your views.
 
Well it sounds like Jpec's got an answer. I just want to hear it. Personally, I think this is one of the world's stupidest questions (Like "Do you know who stole it?").
 
Originally posted by M5Power
Well it sounds like Jpec's got an answer. I just want to hear it. Personally, I think this is one of the world's stupidest questions (Like "Do you know who stole it?").
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Ok. My answer goes like this:
I remember about 3-6 years ago, I was watching Bill Nye the Science Guy (a fairly educational show, although incredibly dumb). And he did this show on magnets and explained the basic scientific principal of how opposites attract. Well, true and false are both opposites, and if opposites attract, they should both come so close that you can't distinguish between the two. This makes for the answer of both.
 
True or False? is not really much of a question. It is not referring to anything in particular. If the question is ' Is the question true or false' then......what question are you referring to. Yesssssss
 

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