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Chriliman

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It's wrong because I just proved that providing an explanation doesn't mean the explanations are true.

Then, on top of that, you have paradoxes...which aren't necessarily true or false.

So truth exists independently of your "something".

Indeed, truth exists independently of any human mind. Which should prove that no human mind can be truth itself, which shows that whatever the truth is must be accepted as true(believed by the human mind), then and only then can truth be known by the human mind.
 
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Let me tell you, these nonsense phrases are not doing you any favors...

You agree that you can't fully define everything that is true, correct? So, what makes you think(using you're finite brain that has a beginning) that truth is not an eternal entity with no beginning and no end?
 
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You agree that you can't fully define everything that is true, correct? So, what makes you think(using you're finite brain that has a beginning) that truth is not an eternal entity with no beginning and no end?

Man, you just double down, don't you...

Truth is a description of reality. It's not a thing. It's not a entity. A human brain can't be "truth itself" because the phrase is nonsensical.
 
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Man, you just double down, don't you...

Truth is a description of reality. It's not a thing. It's not a entity. A human brain can't be "truth itself" because the phrase is nonsensical.

In an eternal reality(which we could be a part of), truth would describe that reality as eternal and this eternal truth would be independent of our finite minds.
 
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"beauty" is more like a subjective opinion, in the eye of the beholder. Which doesn't actually require an explanation, as I see it.
There are plausible evolutionary explanations underlying why we find things beautiful; for example, symmetry, smooth surfaces and curves are indicators of physical and genetic health when selecting a mate, etc.
 
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Indeed, truth exists independently of any human mind. Which should prove that no human mind can be truth itself, which shows that whatever the truth is must be accepted as true(believed by the human mind), then and only then can truth be known by the human mind.

You're still wrong.

You can certainly know truth and not believe in it. Many many live in such denial.
 
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