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A Thomistic Account of Truth | Prof. Timothy Pawl

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Is Your Truth Just as Valid as My Truth?

It can't be the case that truth is just determined by convention, whether individual convention or societya convention ther' Something deeper going on than mere we all think it. How about power? Then? Maybe power determines what's true. So power alone isn't the arbiter of truth either. Sometimes it is like when i say a bachelor is an unmarried man, or a human is a rational animal. There i can be stipulating what the term bachelor means. Is it the right thing to believe? Does it get reality right? A question we can ask.

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