Truth stands alone. If you KNOW the truth and someone tries to tell you different you can weather any argument. But there are truths and there are truths. Some aren't worth the energy to defend, kind of a "so what?" truth. Some you can do prison time for or for not being truthful. You can wield "TRUTH" like a club and use it to hurt people. You can keep the truth from someone to protect that person. It is such an amazing and multi-faceted thing and worthy of much meditation. Who seeks the truth and to what end? Spaw's post while humorous DOES contain some truths which is what makes it work. Don (WYSIWYG) T"s post touches upon the informal fallacies of logic; argumentum ad bacculum, post hoc ergo proctor hoc, appeal to authority and the like. In Aristolean logic the deduction is iron clad TRUTH. In inductive reasoning you can only arrive at a degree of likelyhood and yet it is inductive reasoning that modern science is based upon and the proof of the pudding is in the tasting! It works! The question still remains. Maybe it's that we can approach TRUTH but we can't really attain it. Metaphysical and religious TRUTH is a whole other subject that's been knocking around since history began but that is being addressed in other threads.

When I consider this I wonder if I can ever sit on another jury? Granted deep philosophical questions seldom come up when your considering the fate of a drunk driver or some fool who broke into someone's house or knocked off a liquor store and smiled for the video system on his way out. But it does make me wonder.