THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE ESSAY
“Context is all” (Margaret Atwood) Does this mean there is no such thing as truth?
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"There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."[1] This aphoristic statement of Richard Avidon creates ripples of doubt in even the most believing minds.
Truth knows dimensions beyond a single person’s imagination. Ancient wisdom tells us ‘to each his own’. It could well be
speaking of truth. Many a great thinker has tried to explain and justify truth as they have seen it. To Mahatma Gandhi, truth
was God and truth alone can lead to knowledge. According to John Keats aestheticism was all which can be perceived in his
statement,
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all & ...