Re: Can questions truly be answered?
Originally posted by Tired Hiker
I guess everything is mere theory, or opinion, or a bit of both. I personally don't know.
Every grain of human knowledge rests on the most basic of assumptions- that their senses are accurate. That they represent a portion of reality faithfully. The rest is inferences.
So what Mindship said is true.
Re: Can questions truly be answered?
Originally posted by Tired Hiker
I guess everything is mere theory, or opinion, or a bit of both. I personally don't know.
Every theory needs some basic assumptions in order to exist. And assumptions cannot be concluded, they must be believed in. The better we can do is to assume that they are true.
Faith can make someone satisfied with the answer, but it does not mean the answer is the right one. But what I find interesting is that those basic assumptions that any theory needs, are a "personal input" of ours. I mean, they are created by us. Just the inferences which, in fact, are consequences from those assumptions, are truly impersonal.
Originally posted by Atlantis001
Faith can make someone satisfied with the answer, but it does not mean the answer is the right one. But what I find interesting is that those basic assumptions that any theory needs, are a "personal input" of ours. I mean, they are created by us. Just the inferences which, in fact, are consequences from those assumptions, are truly impersonal.
Kind of like, The Declaration Of Independance? Though it was signed by Jefferson and Adams and so forth, it is still just a piece of paper with rules that govern those who abide by it? Well, I agree with you if that's along the lines of what you are saying. And for those who don't abide by it, they are punished by those who have faith in the idea. An idea that is simply put on a pedestal just because US law protects it.
Originally posted by lord xyz
faith=belief
reliability=trust
I don't quite agree.
validity=trust/faith/belief, because we are trusting, or having faith, that what we think is true, what our measurements purport to be true, Is true. "Measurement/Observation X means Reality Y." But we really don't know that with certainty.
reliability=experience/predictability, because we learn from repeated experience that what we expect to occur keeps on occurring. We can rely on a given set of conditions to keep giving us the same result, whether these results represent a "truth" or not. "Measurement/Observation X always yields Result Y" (which may in truth mean Reality Y...or it may not)".
Thus, answer satisfaction--to an extent--will come first from reliability, because of predictability/expectation. But if you want more, then you need to have faith. Validity will bring answer satisfaction only if we believe/trust/have faith that the answer=reality.
Originally posted by Mindship
I don't quite agree.validity=trust/faith/belief, because we are trusting, or having faith, that what we think is true, what our measurements purport to be true, Is true. "Measurement/Observation X means Reality Y." But we really don't know that with certainty.
reliability=experience/predictability, because we learn from repeated experience that what we expect to occur keeps on occurring. We can rely on a given set of conditions to keep giving us the same result, whether these results represent a "truth" or not. "Measurement/Observation X always yields Result Y" (which may in truth mean Reality Y...or it may not)".
Thus, answer satisfaction--to an extent--will come first from reliability, because of predictability/expectation. But if you want more, then you need to have faith. Validity will bring answer satisfaction only if we believe/trust/have faith that the answer=reality.
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Originally posted by Mindshipermm
I don't quite agree.validity=trust/faith/belief, because we are trusting, or having faith, that what we think is true, what our measurements purport to be true, Is true. "Measurement/Observation X means Reality Y." But we really don't know that with certainty.
reliability=experience/predictability, because we learn from repeated experience that what we expect to occur keeps on occurring. We can rely on a given set of conditions to keep giving us the same result, whether these results represent a "truth" or not. "Measurement/Observation X always yields Result Y" (which may in truth mean Reality Y...or it may not)".
Thus, answer satisfaction--to an extent--will come first from reliability, because of predictability/expectation. But if you want more, then you need to have faith. Validity will bring answer satisfaction only if we believe/trust/have faith that the answer=reality.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=validity
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=reliability
Originally posted by lord xyz
ermmhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=validity
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=reliability
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However, clearer definitions can be found if you use Google and type in "define: validity / reliability."
Validity: The extent to which a measure accurately reflects the concept that it is intended to measure.
Reliability: The extent to which a measurement instrument yields consistent, stable, and uniform results over repeated observations or measurements under the same conditions each time.
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
If you are uncertain whether questions can truly be answered, then why did you ask the question? If questions cannot truly be answered, then any response to your question will be inadequate.
only questions that are relative but absolute in nature can be answered. If you believe in teh truth then relativity will lead you to whatever truth you believe in.
Can questions be answered? That depends on many things. Is the question concieveble? Is the Answer? Is the seeker of knowledge just that, or is the answer even what is being sought? In turn a question brings more questions as my response has shown, and whether or not there are answers, may never be yet known.... 🤣
Is it the answer to questions we seek, or the questions that remain after one attains their knowledge? Perhaps the answers are the sources of new questions? Perhaps it is acknowledging those new questions that bring us one step closer to enlightenment.