both empirical and rationalist views. Empiricism ability to think, reason, and believe in ideas that
is the belief that all knowledge is derived from spawn new creations. Nietzsche said that God is
the senses only. Rationalism believes all dead. He has been killed off by our ideas,
knowledge comes from reason. He united these restriction, and advancements. Our true faith
two views with his findings that knowledge is rests in ourselves. We have killed God and
subject to both sensory experience and reason. named ourselves to be his worthy successors.
This is referred to as Kantian Formalism. Humans have the ability to explore space
Bertrand Russell introduced what we know as through the invention of spaceships. What we
the correspondence theory of truth. This asserts are raised to believe keeps us in these beliefs.
that an idea, belief, or thought is true if what it Where we are from, what religion we believe in,
refers to actually exists. This theory is the and what is common in our culture backs these
foundation of empiricism. Nietzsche chalked beliefs. Truth exists, but is relative and
truth up to a matter of mere perspective. Truth dependent upon individual factors: culture,
transcends what we believe religiously or experience, and knowledge. For instance, I have
morally. He deemed knowledge to be merely an four children by an African man from Gambia.
invention. Kierkegaard reasoned to discover So, I speak to Africans on a daily basis. Some of
truth is to find the truth that works for me, them are still in Africa and some have made it
individually. If one does not recognize the truth to the United States. Most Africans still residing
when one sees it, it becomes inconsequential to in Africa believe that the streets of America are
them. Accepting objectivity is a bias in itself. paved with gold and it is one of the greatest
David Hume’s position opposed that there is no places to live. The Africans I know who live in
logical way to trust in the existence of an America all say, “If I had known it was this hard
external reality. We create our own world of to survive in America, I would have stayed in
truth and lies through the imagination. Also, our Africa.” This leads me to believe that truth is
experiences have a pattern to them. We are relative. It is a game of perspective and
able to accumulate different perceptions of perception
ourselves looking in a mirror while changing our
stance, but we can never see the whole
Truth is relative. Opinion or “truth” is subject to
perspective at once due to the shift of our
many things that can alter it. Real truth is
perceptions. These views can be seen and
unchanging. Many times we lack the ability to
expressed through the many different cultures
see the truth clearly. The truth may present
and individual belief systems that we encounter
itself to us in a variety of ways. We see it when
through contact with others.
it becomes relevant to us. An old adage says

love is blind. The same could be said about
From my point of view, truth is a first cousin to
truth representative of the fact that Lady Justice
knowledge. It seems as though truth relies on
stands with her double-edged sword
the fundamentals of knowledge. Truth for the
unsheathed and the scales of truth tipped in
most part is relative. So, truth is a fundament of
time’s favor. At the same time her eyes are
perception. Some examples are: Time is
blindfolded against the injustice of belief,
restricted to a twenty-four hour period, yet it is
knowledge, and relativity.
said that time waits for no man. God is the

ultimate creator, although, He gave us the
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