The Truth Trot/ is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm their opponent by providing an excessive number of arguments with extreme integrity, and utmost regard for the accuracy, strength and context of those arguments.
That is not correct at all, take em' for a truth-trot.
He was brought on a truth-trot after lieing about what happened.
Truth-Trot is the opposite of Gish-Gallop.
He was brought on a truth-trot after lieing about what happened.
Truth-Trot is the opposite of Gish-Gallop.
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Get the Truth mug.1. What or who has actually existed or an event that has actually happened, whether it's proven or not (the physical truth).
2. What people say something or someone is when it isn't necessarily true.
2. What people say something or someone is when it isn't necessarily true.
'If someone says that something is true when it isn't necessarily, that doesn't make it an objective truth, but a subjective opinion.'
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There he was truthing again about the so-called raid.
He was all over IG truthing about how she cheated, when he was the unfaithful one.
He was all over IG truthing about how she cheated, when he was the unfaithful one.
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Get the Truthing mug.The self-referential paradox of defining truth without being circular. The classic definition is "correspondence with reality." But to check if a statement corresponds to reality, you must already have access to that reality, which is the very thing in question (see: Hard Problem of Reality). All other theories of truth collapse into relativism (coherence: "true if it fits our other beliefs") or pragmatism ("true if it works"), which abandon the commonsense notion of an objective, mind-independent truth. The hard problem is that the concept of truth seems necessary for rational discourse, yet any attempt to ground it leads either to infinite regress or a dogmatic stopping point.
Example: The statement "Gravity pulls objects toward Earth's center." How do we know it's true? We point to evidence (falling apples, orbital mechanics). But that evidence is only valid if we assume our senses and instruments reliably report reality (a truth claim itself). We trust the instruments because of physics (another set of truth claims). The chain never touches bedrock. The hard problem: Truth is the anchor of thought, but the anchor is hooked to the boat it's supposed to be securing. We sail on an ocean of justified beliefs, never dropping anchor in the seafloor of absolute truth. Hard Problem of Truth.
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