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The Concept of Truth in Science and Faith

The "truth" seems to be one of the first abstract notions that the human learns in early childhood (as soon as he discovered the lie and its advantages, though). Nevertheless, the rest of life sometimes is not sufficient to find out all the meanings within the concept of truth. Its versatility, at times its intrinsic contradiction, contributed to the enthronement of "post-truth" as the Word of the Year 2016 by Oxford Dictionaries. Philosophical contemplation of truth rarely dovetails with scientific notion of achieving the same result in the same conditions. For sciences, as well for humanities, the truth is still adequatio intellectu ad rem, to resort to Thomistic interpretation of Aristotle, namely factual truth (although one should always keep in mind who has been the factor, i.e. the perpetrator of the fact). In the religious mind, the difference between the factual and the revealed truth (to be seen later as adequatio rei ad intellectu) dates back to the early ages. The meaning of אֱמֶת (emét) does not look the same in Exod 42, 16 (factual) and in Josh 24: 14 (linked to “serving the God”). Ἀλήϑεια or Veritas in John 14:6 (“…Ἐγώ Ἐίμαι ἡ Ὁδός, ἡ Ἀλήϑεια και ἡ Ζωή” ; “…Ego sum Via et Veritas et Vita…”) is not Aristotelian ἀλήϑεια anymore, but revealed Ἀλήϑεια, not veritas but Veritas, not truth but Truth, namely the same as Jesus himself. Even further away from the Aristotelian philosophy and Hellenistic traditions is term حقّ (Al-Haqq) used in the Quran (for example 2:144, 9:119). It means Truth, but also Justice, and Law. It is one of the God’s names too: in Islam Allah Ta’ala is truthful, and the Truth Himself. If in the current dialogue between science and religion, and between them and civil society (for example in the media), are used terms such as "truth", it is useful to keep in mind and clearly say which meaning of the term in question is mediated, or at least in which optic: the religious or Cartesian one.

Truth, Religion ; Science, Humanity

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