In seven pages this paper defends Apps' argument that truth is interpreted in terms of belief with the notions of knowledge, belief, and truth defined within the course of the consideration. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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beliefs and this includes the process of identification, a search for contradictions, discovering personal, institutional, or social/cultural bases for the beliefs and making judgments about any bases in respect to
the particular beliefs held. Apps also suggested that a belief is what one accepts as truth. This is a seemingly plausible claim on the surface but a student writing on
this subject will want to examine it further. In looking at beliefs and belief systems, the idea that belief is equated with truth seems logical. Why would someone believe
something that they do not believe is true? Yet, truth is relative and may have different meanings to different people. What is the truth? One might say that it is
true that today is a sunny day. Yet, another person may look outside and see one cloud and argue that it is not a sunny day because there is a
cloud in the sky. The two could argue, but the truth can never be reached. Even if one were to carefully go through the definition of what a sunny day
is construed as by the general populous, there will always be someone to argue the other view. Anyone can dispute anything. People play devils advocate all the time, negating
valid premises. This is how high priced attorneys win impossible cases and it is also how philosophers make their points. The Socratic method, one which such legal ploys are based,
is supposed to elicit the truth. But when all is said and done, does the truth come out, or are the conclusions just a bit closer to the truth? Underneath
it all is the question as to whether or not anyone can know anything. The idea that truth can be known at all is a giant leap of faith.