“The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.” ~ Ammianus Marcellinus
In the light of yesterdays article (David Hume), one wonders what the meaning of 'truth' is. Is it the hard cold facts that we cannot change, or is it our perception of the truth that this quote is refering to.
I can believe this quote if it refers to the facts. Something just is, there is no reason, cause or interpretation of it. "The chair was standing in the middle of the room and I fell over it".
However, some people would want to believe that the truth is someone deliberitely sabotashed me in order for me to fall. However, this is mearly the interpretation of the truth (fact). The need to seek for a cause or a reason why something happened is human nature.
That is the way our minds function to protect us from future harm. We need to find patterns of events that happen so that we can understand why we got hurt (for example) and assossiate the pain with what ever we think caused our pain. The problem is, our interpretation of the truth gets it wrong sometimes.
We need someone to blame: Did someone deliberitely put it there, or was I not careful enough? Sometimes things just happen at random, and trying to blame someone is a waist of time. It is not so much about who put the chair in the middle of the room to increase the probability of me falling over it. It is more about me getting up after the fall, and moving the chair to a safer place to prevent someone else from getting hurt. Rather spend energy on avoiding the same problem from occurring again, that will serve others as well.
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