About this episode

Dallas Willard discusses the importance of truth and its role in understanding reality.

The Value of Truth and What Happens When U Don't Have It Veritas Forum at Louisiana State University February 17, 2008 Why is truth so valuable? It enables you to deal with reality successfully. Reality is what you run into when you’re wrong. Simply believing something doesn’t make it true or false. Truth is accuracy of representation. You know something if you’re able to represent it as it is on an appropriate basis of thought and experience. PowerPoint Slides 2008-...

People in this episode

Host: Dallas Willard

Topics covered

• truth
• reality
• representation
• accuracy
• belief

Keywords

• truth
• reality
• accuracy
• belief
• representation
• Veritas Forum

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Veritas Forum

Places: Louisiana State University

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