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The Search for Truth

Holistic Perspective and


Partial Point of View
Guide Questions:

1. Are you a fan of sharing


memes, news, and article
in your social media
accounts?
2. How sure are you that
your credibility will not be
affected in sharing
misinformation?
3. How truth should be
known?
Life is Worth Living if It is an Examined Life
---Socrates

If we do not examine our ideas and beliefs and test them to determine
whether or not they are contradictory, and we live our entire life based
upon those ideas; we will have lived a deceitful life; a life of false belief

Knowledge is the most valuable thing in life

It is better to seek knowledge and be conscious of your own ignorance


than to claim knowledge that you really do not have (Lodhi, 2018).
OPINION vs FACT

OPINION FACT
OPINION vs FACT

OPINION FACT
Are attitudes or judgments that can be Can be measured, observed, and proven
proven wrong if it contradicts to truth Can be verified or proven using standard
Refers to a personal belief. It relates to how references or scientific experiments
someone feels about something Hardcore and hence they cannot keep
An inconclusive statement, used in constantly changing; a fact remains a fact
subjective matters until proven otherwise

 SUBJECTIVE information is anything that  OBJECTIVE information is factual and


is based on personal opinion, judgement, base on observations and measurements
feelings, or point of view.
TRUTH •Truth may include fact, but it can also include
may include fact, belief. Oftentimes, people will accept things as true
may include because they fall closer to their comfort zones, are
assimilated easily into their comfort zones, or
belief, and is reflect their preconceived notions of reality (Walsh,
2018)
acceptable
Truth is something that has actual and proven existence
scientifically and/or spiritually regardless of one’s
opinion and beliefs. It is undisputed, objective, universal,
constant, exact, and factual (Quipper School, 2016)
Truth is a generally
Examples:
All things that can be seen are temporal.
accepted outcome or
(undisputed - to engage in argument or debate) reasoning while fact
is a proven truth. In
Two plus two equals four (2 + 2 = 4). other words, every
(exact - precise)
fact is true but not
The Philippines, as proven in geographical and anthropological all truths are facts
properties, is a country in Southeast Asia.
(factual - actually occurring)

God is existing.
(spiritual belief)
The ultimate search for TRUTH explains why
philosophers called lovers of wisdom
A human person does philosophy
because he/she is continually taking
in information, thinking about it, and
coming up with conclusions. Doing
philosophy involves asking the right
questions, critically examining the
possible solutions to come up with
the right answers. How he/she
comes to conclusions about his/her
questions involves him/her in
thinking and involves him/her in
philosophy.
Point of View
way/method of how one sees or perceives the reality of a phenomenon. It is an
attitude of how one sees or thinks of something (Quipper School, 2016)

Partial Point of View Holistic Point of View

A perspective that is based on one of the Holistic or Holism (greek word) “holos”
component parts of a whole literally means all, entire, totality.
It looks at only a limited number of aspects of a This kind of system aims to determine and
given problem or situation explain the whole or totality of a given system
Conclusions are made on considering some, but by examining the behaviors and activities of
certain component parts.
not all, sides of the problem or situation
A holistic point of view the perception of
looking at all aspects of a situation first before
making the right conclusion - a conclusion of
truth
Learning philosophy requires
learning to look into all available
perspectives and work on their
relationship to come up with
sound, logical, and valid
conclusions. In the process, doing
philosophy helps one to develop
the skill of broadly looking at the
situation first before concluding
anything to reach the truth
Partial point of view/s:
►I see a junked beetle car.
►This is a junkyard and I see all sorts of junks.
►I see some people.

Holistic Perspective:
►The picture shows a junkyard where there
are
people living in it.
Give your:

Partial Point of View: ________________________


__________________________________________
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Holistic Perspective: __________________________


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Give your:

Partial Point of View: ________________________


__________________________________________
__________________________________________

Holistic Perspective: __________________________


___________________________________________
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Give your:

Partial Point of View: ________________________


__________________________________________
__________________________________________

Holistic Perspective: __________________________


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