Comment on I always believe what the people around me believe. Is that truth or what?
dope@lemm.ee 7 months agoOnly the facts are the truth. Got it.
Comment on I always believe what the people around me believe. Is that truth or what?
dope@lemm.ee 7 months agoOnly the facts are the truth. Got it.
Chais@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Not quite. The truth is what the facts are based on.
Take the speed of light in vacuum, for example. We don’t know its true value. We have measured it repeatedly, to high precision, using various different methods. Those measurements are or facts. Based on those facts we estimate the speed of light in vacuum to be 299,792,458 m/s. We are quite confident that this value is at least very close to the truth, sure to how many measurements we made and how close they’re bunched together.
But if in the future more precise measurements suggest that it’s in fact closer to 299,792,458.135 m/s then we’ll learn that we’ve been less correct before.