Tuesday, December 22, 2009

How can I prove that truth is beauty (basing the arguments from a quotation by a philosopher)?

Truth had been conceived as an objective definition relation, as once good and beauty had been. Now, what if truth,like these, were also relative to human judgment and human needs? ';Natural laws'; had beeen taken as ';objective'; truths, eternal and unchangeable. Spinoza had made them the very substance of his philosophy. And yet what were these truths but formulations of expereince, conveninet and successful in practice; not copies of an object, but correct calculations of specific consequences? Truth is the cash value of an idea.





Truth is a process and happens to an idea; verity is verification. Instead of asking when an idea is dervied, or what are its premises, pragmatism examines its results. It shifts the emphasis and looks forward. It is the attitude of looking away from the first things, principles, categories, supposed necessities and of looking towards last things, fruits, consequences and facts.





Thanks for asking. Happy Easter!How can I prove that truth is beauty (basing the arguments from a quotation by a philosopher)?
I think its nice to know the truth, the truth can be beautiful, but at the same time hard to accept, and not beautiful.How can I prove that truth is beauty (basing the arguments from a quotation by a philosopher)?
';SATYAM SHIVAM SUNDARAM';--------Sanskrit quote from indian philosophy.





it means that, something which is true (satyam) is always divine (Shivam) as well as beautiful (Sundaram).
The whole world of philosophy would fall apart if you could prove any of it!! Look at Buddist stuff they like all that truth stuff.
Both are subjective and relative.


You can not prove either one without a contextual bias.





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Most use art as that basis to express the beauty of truth or the truth of beauty
As artistic ';harmony'; is a form of truth:





';Beauty is a sense of harmony. Whether it's an image, a human face, a body, or a sunset, take the object which you call beautiful, as a unit [and ask yourself]: what parts is it made up of, what are its constituent elements, and are they all harmonious? If they are, the result is beautiful. If there are contradictions and clashes, the result is marred or positively ugly.'; [1]





And where does such ';harmony'; in human activities come from?


';Truth is the product of the recognition (i.e., identification) of the facts of reality. Man identifies and integrates the facts of reality by means of concepts. He retains concepts in his mind by means of definitions. He organizes concepts into propositions鈥攁nd the truth or falsehood of his propositions rests, not only on their relation to the facts he asserts, but also on the truth or falsehood of the definitions of the concepts he uses to assert them, which rests on the truth or falsehood of his designations of essential characteristics.';


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by showing that both are completely subjective and therefore impossible to be judged by another.





I truth is beauty to you, nobody else can tell you that YOU are wrong about what you feel.
None of these types of statement can be proved.
You might try to prove it by arguing that mathematics is the substratum of the universe, and that both our grasp of truth and our appreciation of beauty come about as a result of bringing ourselves in tune with the numbers, ratio, relationships at the bottom of all reality.





Here's a quotation you might employ: ';The mathematician's patterns, like the poet's or the painter's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics.';





Godfrey H. Hardy, A MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY (1941).

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