Probe them on the nature of truth

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From: Propose a Pertinent Point


To strive this hard for a conclusion implies a belief in an immutable truth, discoverable through debate and logic. But what does one even mean by truth?

Locked with The Academic Mood 50


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 125

  • 86 - very chancy (41%)
  • 107 - chancy (51%)
  • 128 - modest (61%)
  • 148 - very modest (71%)
  • 169 - low-risk (81%)
  • 190 - straightforward (91%)
  • 209 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Redirected debate

[…] A flurry of voices […] consider the question.

[…] The […] conversation moves […] to […] whether truth is […] perceptible […] An elderly spider gets side-tracked by the topic of optical illusions […] For it even to consider whether you are its peer […] is a sign of favour.

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Rare Success

Redirected debate

[…] voices […] consider the question.

[…] The […] conversation moves swiftly from the correspondence theory of truth to a fierce argument about perception – and whether truth is a thing that can be perceived at all. […] a large spider has a leg pulled clean away. […]

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Wiki note: Rare success chance is 25%.


Failure

Brought back into order

The Symposium bursts into discussion […]

[…] This is a mere digression, proposed out of desperation by a 'scholar' with nothing legitimate to add to the discussion at hand. […] we accept that truth is that which ascribes to those things corresponding to reality […]

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