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Morning, Amy.

Good morning, Greg.

All right.

Here's a question from Casey.

A friend was asked to explain, how do you determine whether something is true or false?

How do you determine whether an action is right or wrong?

How do you determine whether something is good or bad?

Before you bring in scripture, what tools or reasoning help you recognize those categories

in daily life?

Well, there's a couple of different issues here.

One is true or false.

That's facts that are non-moral in consequence and facts that are moral in consequence.

And what we're trying to do when we are asking whether a thing is true or not,

is we're asking whether the claim or the belief or the idea in question matches the way the world is itself. So this matching of the

claim with the world is the relationship that is called a truth relationship. So if I say it's

raining outside and it is raining outside, then my statement is the true

statement because my statement matches the way the world actually is that I'm making a claim

about.

If I say grass is green and there's the grass and it's green, then my statement is true.

If I say that there's no elephant in the room and there isn't, then that's a true statement.

And, I mean, it's a very simple way of putting it.

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