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In academic circles it is traditional to value all
truths. Students in higher education are rarely taught to
value some truths more highly than other truths; unless
possibly they are taught to value verbal truths more than
non-verbal truths, and mathematical truths more than
verbal truths. Students are often taught to value truths
in terms of the abstraction of the truth's symbolism. The
greater the abstraction the greater the value. This is
the way of the technocrat. In this way intuitive,
affective, emotional, and visual statements of truth are
not valued. To the extent that such truths are ignored
and forgotten---they become unknown and unreal.
When all truths of a given kind are valued equally,
none of them are valued very highly. Humans have limited
time and energy. Humans cannot value all truths highly;
for valuing requires time and energy, and a person does
not have enough time and energy to value all truths
highly. The result is that no truths are valued highly.
What meaning can there be in valuing a truth. A
truth is given meaning by its relevance to human
perceptions, desires, understanding, decisions, and
actions. A truth is valuable when it is related to human
conditions and situations. Value is thus contextual,
depending upon the human context. Truth values thus depend
upon individual differences, times, and places. Thus,
truth values are not absolutes written down in heaven
forever and ever for everywhere. Truth values depend
upon human situations.
Education would be more meaningful to students if
students were helped in perceiving relative truth values
so that they could set priorities with respect to which
truths to attend to. It is not helpful to be told to
value truth, when there are more truths than you can
possibly come to know. It is one thing to value honesty--
-telling "the truth". It is another thing entirely to
value each and every "truth". One must become aware of
the possible values of various facts, relationships,
correlations, insights, laws, theories, images, etc.,
before one can be politically responsible in setting
intellectual priorities.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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