Why+Truth+Matters

By what means do people create antinomies to truth according to the authors of this reading?

People create antimonies to truth by believing in their own beliefs because they prefer their own opinions as the truth.

What point are these authors making? Do you agree?

In the beginning, the author mentions that the truth is what we often fear and hate. However, no matter how much we abhor the truth, there will be always true facts around us. Sometimes, we have good reasons to be frightened from truth: to resist and decline it because you believe in your own thoughts and notions. Most people hate truth because they can’t face the reality, they can’t accepts facts. They prefer it if their opinions turn out to be true. I don’t agree with the author statement that, “Facts are precisely what there are not, only interpretations”. This statement is something that I don’t believe in because there are always facts in everything but people cannot see them as real facts. Secondly, he is also trying to point out that the role of authority is to tell the people what to believe and think to be liberated from responsibility and the hard work of thinking. He believed that it had affected the way we see things over all the year that passed. The act of listening to other people’s conviction makes it more bewildering to decide what the truth is. The author states that the truth is not important but what matters is that we’re still on the same page. He believes that our society should have an affiliation to have the same point of view. I agree with what the author’s trying to point out because as soon as we start to interact with other people by talking, arguing, persuading, communicating, or even by teaching, our own perspectives may not matter at all. Lastly, he talks about why we ought to respect and value truth. The author is saying that we must respect the truth and give value to it whether we like or dislike what we find out because truth is something that we can discover along the way, and prove that it can be wrong. I strongly agree with his statement because the truth is not always considered as true. Sometimes we just think that it is a fact because we believe in our own perspectives.