What Is Real Truth?
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
What is truth?
On this channel, we speak a lot about the teachings of the Church and how our society longs for these truths. But have you ever stopped and asked yourself what truth really is? There can be a lot of long, philosophical, complicated answers to this question, but today we have a simple one: truth can simply be defined as “what is.” In other words, a statement is either true or false depending on how closely it describes reality, or what is. But if truth is centered around reality, are there different truths for different people?
Today, Fr. Mike explains what real truth is.
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| 0:00.0 | There is this big question. |
| 0:01.2 | It's probably the first question that needs to be asked |
| 0:04.7 | and answered by any philosopher, |
| 0:07.2 | by anyone who wants to grow in wisdom, |
| 0:08.6 | but anyone who wants to have knowledge. |
| 0:10.0 | And that big question is, what is truth? |
| 0:12.1 | Like, in fact, let's, I'll say it again, |
| 0:14.4 | what is truth is the big question. |
| 0:15.9 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and this is Ascension Presents. |
| 0:26.9 | How do you define truth? |
| 0:27.9 | Because if we're going to talk about, |
| 0:29.4 | I mean, honestly, on this channel, |
| 0:32.0 | I make a lot of claims, right? |
| 0:33.5 | We make a lot of claims that here's the here's the church |
| 0:35.5 | that says, this is truth, that is true. |
| 0:38.2 | But the first question is, well, what is truth in the first place? |
| 0:41.4 | And, you know, there can be a lot of complicated definitions |
| 0:44.2 | of truth, there can be a lot of really complex |
| 0:46.2 | and nuanced definitions of truth, |
| 0:48.6 | but I'm a pretty simple guy, |
| 0:49.6 | so let's have a simple definition of truth. |
| 0:52.1 | In fact, here's a definition of truth |
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