What's all this talk about what "Truth" is?

What's all this talk about what "Truth" is?

Something is true if it's a fact, i.e. it can be proven with evidence.

Everything else is opinion.

What's the big problem?

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Give me something that is under debate regarding truth and I'll let you know whether it's true or not according to my theory.

Math is proved without physical evidence, and is in some sense "truer" than petty physical fact.

The only zeroes of the Riemann zeta function lie on the negative reals and 1/2+iy for y a real number.

Can you prove that your lap exists while standing up? At what point do your legs end and your lap begins? Could you point out on an anatomical diagram where the lap is on an upright figure?

Of course you can't – the true actualisation of the lap can only occur at the moment ones thighs are positioned at an angle parallel to the ground. A lap is only a lap when it becomes a surface, when the appendages originally intended for walking are transformed into a single object offering rest and support. Thus, what we can reasonably say concerning the "truth" of the lap is that it exists at at the threshold between real, physical components (the legs) and a linguistic frame of reference, which designates its function and use according to the relation between figure and ground (either walking or resting).

There is no evidence to suggest that everyone has a lap, because so much of our time is spent standing up: unless the population of the world were simultaneously seated, it would not be possible to make such an outrageous universal claim. It is, nevertheless, true that human beings do indeed have laps. This is not an opinion; yet any evidence I could present to you to prove this claim would be already redundant.

Is this true, according to your theory?:
>Something is true if it's a fact, i.e. it can be proven with evidence.
>Everything else is opinion

So for something to be true, it must be proven with evidence? Can you give me evidence that you're not a fucking retard? Because until said time, it's just conjecture.

facts are circumstantial. truth is not limited to circumstance. otherwise it would not be truth, merely information whose validity is contingent on extraneous variables.

furthermore, truth can be hidden from plain sight until revealed when the conditions for its unveiling are met. I.e. climbing a mountain and seeing from a new perspective, or the accrual of experience.

the problem is when people take trivia as the truth when truth is something that encompasses everything; i.e. it is universal.