John Wyndham's the Chrysalids - What Is the Truth?

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What is the Truth? In my opinion, the definition of truth is belief plus evidence. I feel that truth cannot be discussed as an individual as it is closely linked with belief. As everyone in the world has different believes, there is no one truth. The perception of truth differs from one person to another. People can blindly believe, but that does not mean it’s the truth. Truth is when your believe is supported by evidence, allowing you to trust your believe and then it becomes the truth in your life. Thus, there is no one truth.However, there is a general truth that people believe in. I think that morals are one of the general truths. For example, many people believe that Person A is very immoral in the sense of self-respect and relationships because she plays around with a lot of other people and that she is also divorced. This is a general truth as most of the people in the world has this believe and thus is interpreted as such. There is also another type of general truth that is in scientific terms. From my point of view, they can also be called facts of the current world. By current world, I mean the logic that we have now in this time and age that we exist in. I believe, that these so called general truths will change, according to the type of world we live in. Some examples of general truths of this world is that all dogs have four legs and that no cars can fly. If a hundred years later human science massively develops, who knows, maybe dogs can be genetically engineered to have six legs for convenience and flying cars are household commodities. Thus, I think that a general truth is what the majority of the world and believe is true in a somewhat stereotyping sense.. I think that Joseph Strorm is wrong in his pursuit of the true image of man and that there is no true image of man. A man can have abnormal features and still be a man. It doesn’t

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