“The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide.” MenBodyRealitySocialConditionsEventsTruth IsShapesNewsFunctionSocial Conditions Author:Walter Lippmann
“The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.” SoulVirtueTruth IsIntellectualFunctionDispositionAttainment Book:The Nicomachean ethics Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the truth is, the clients do not know what they want. They usually do not know what questions must be answered, and they have almost never thought of the problem in the detail that must be specified.” KnowsWantImportantProblemBuildingProductsTruth IsFunctionDetailsHardestSoftwareClientsRequirementsBuilderRefinementExtraction Author:Fred Brooks
“The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.” MenFactsRealityLightEventsTruth IsNewsFunctionRelation Book:Public Opinion Source: Public Opinion
“An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.” PeopleGivingLooksBookSelfFormCommunityReligiousMistakeGracePositionTruth IsStandingFunctionDoctrineRelyIdolsJustificationIdolatryFalse GodsSelf JustificationReligious CommunityScoffers Author:Timothy Keller