DANIEL ASSA
Israel. Givatayim, 90 Shenkin Menahem St. 5330801
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Israel. Givatayim: March 12, 2018
Truth is an expression which describes a review of facts in a correct, absolute and complete manner.
From the definition above it is obvious that truth cannot be partial, relative or subjective.
When any actual event happens, there is only one truth that can describe it. People tend to use the phrase "my truth", as if somewhere there's a different truth for someone else, that describes the exact same facts. Although the phrase is beautiful and describes the devotion of the speaker to the facts as he recognizes and knows them, it is still not enough to make his subjective truth to an absolute truth.
Sometimes, the truth does seem to us – the ones who feel, watch or listen to its description – as if it is not solid enough, especially when it is described by various people, who experienced it from different perspectives, mostly also from perspectives which allow only a partial understanding of the truth. This is the situation described by the Japanese immortal film "Rashomon".
Truth can only be one. Even when is not revealed to us completely. Even when ours perspective is subjective and influenced by prejudice. Even when our mind completes (by itself without our conscious control) details that do not exist and even when it deducts ones that do exist.
Many people tend to add to the truth, consciously, so-called "facts" to fit their prejudice. This tendency is one of the reasons why there is a serious risk of a miscarriage of Justice when relying on single testimony which is not backed by factual findings, circumstantial findings, or at least additional supporting evidence.
A famous joke tells the story of an item published in Soviet Russia in the Communist Party magazine "Pravda" (ironically-"Truth" in Russian). The item describes a running competition between only two participants, one Russian and one American. Pravda reported the results of the competition: "in a race held yesterday the Russian runner came in the respected second place .An American runner who participated came in one before the last place". Factual and precise description, but is this description a correct, absolute or complete description of the truth? The answer is obviously no!! The description is incomplete in a data delivery aspect, it shows twisted relativism between participants and thereby causes a false description of reality. As all being cited wrong say – things were taken out of context.
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