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'''Truth''' | '''Truth''' is that which is in accordance with [[reality]]. The opposite of truth is [[falsehood]]. A statement can be indicated to be true or false by [[evidence]]. One method of demonstrating the veracity of a claim is [[Praxis|practical application]]: Ideas that are correct generally succeed in practice while those that are incorrect generally fail.<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Mao Zedong]]|year=1963|title=Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?|title-url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Where_do_correct_ideas_come_from%3F|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_01.htm}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Karl Marx|title=Theses on Feuerbach|date=1845|url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/|retrieved=1924 first published in German and in Russian translation, by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Marx-Engels Archives, Book I, Moscow.|quote=The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question. Man must prove the truth, i.e., the reality and power, the this-sidedness [Diesseitigkeit] of his thinking, in practice. The dispute over the reality or non-reality of thinking which is isolated from practice is a purely scholastic question.}}</ref> | ||
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- Not to be confused with Pravda, whose name translates as "Truth"
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Truth is that which is in accordance with reality. The opposite of truth is falsehood. A statement can be indicated to be true or false by evidence. One method of demonstrating the veracity of a claim is practical application: Ideas that are correct generally succeed in practice while those that are incorrect generally fail.[1][2]
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- ↑ Mao Zedong (1963). Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?. [MIA]
- ↑ “The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question. Man must prove the truth, i.e., the reality and power, the this-sidedness [Diesseitigkeit] of his thinking, in practice. The dispute over the reality or non-reality of thinking which is isolated from practice is a purely scholastic question.”
Karl Marx (1845). "Theses on Feuerbach" Retrieved 1924 first published in German and in Russian translation, by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Marx-Engels Archives, Book I, Moscow..