Can truth exist without facts?

Lol I know exactly whose mouth that sh!t dribbled from. ;)

I love all the bullsh!tty coy-yet-intellectually-dishonest answers so far.

SURE, in a manner of speaking, truth can exist separate from facts. However, you cannot honestly claim to know something is true until all reasonable doubt is eliminated.

If you told people 1,000 years ago that it was possible to fly to the moon in a spaceship, and couldn't back that up with a reasonable explanation, it would be correct to call you a bullsh!tter, which is what each and every Christian who claims to "know the truth" is - a bunch of bullsh!tters.

So far, reasonable doubt has not been eliminated from the claim that there is a god. So please do us a favor, theists - and shut the f*ck up about what you think is true. It is a joke, and it's getting old.

Do you love your parents, or a spouse or a pet, or a sibling? What facts do you have that proves this?

Did you every see anything that was beautiful? What facts do you have to prove this?

Some truths defy objectification. The person asserting the truth knows it to be true but must admit they do not posses facts to prove that truth.

By the same token the facts do not always lead to the truth. The number of people released from prison after it was later proven innocent attests to this. Yes the person was convicted based on the facts presented in evidence but those facts lead the jury to the wrong conclusion.

The reason some truths cannot be 'proven' with facts is some things that are a very real part of existence defy objectification

The reason facts don't always lead to the truth is conclusions are in part interpretative and interpretations can be bias based on world view, past experience or not objective factors.

This is why two people can look at the same facts and come to different conclusions, this is also why sometimes the facts can be equally supportive of two different conclusions but the person looking at the facts denies one of the two possible conclusions.

They're called scientists, few facts but many hypothesis. No one was around for the Big Bang, no one has gone faster than the speed of light - will time really go backwards? They act on faith that's what some one before them was right, knew more than they do..The same as Christians- we just believe in a God who created the Universe and sent his son down to earth to talk to us about it. Is there fact with out truth? I have a Masters in a number of fields but statistics is one of them, it can be manipulated to prove any idea / fact you want to prove- they have facts but most of the time very little truth. Kinda like politicians. Good Luck!

Logically speaking, it isn't. Facts are observational truths. If you claim to have a truth that cannot be proven, then it isn't really a truth, it's just stupid. Or delusions.

Mental, internal truth is usually mistaken in conversation as a "known" truth especially when referring to religious faith/belief.

These sorts of religiously-correct "truths" are highly subjective and based solely upon herd-specific narratives which everyone who belongs to that herd will readily defend using inculcation narratives like:

- "everybody knows that's true" or

- "everyone believes"

By constantly relying on blanket statements via logical fallacies that appeal to ignorance/tradition, these people are determined to stifle or silence any critical thinking that might threaten the dominant "conventional wisdom", (defend religious absurdity) mindsets.

Truth is usually always subjective, typically, a factual truth requires a critical mass of physical/visual evidence must be reached before a fact can be thoroughly analyzed as being solely based upon objective truth.

Religious truths tend to elicit a plethora of tantrum specific, contentious arguments where believers, perceive their faith and their belief systems as accepted "truths" regardless of the mental-centric source of these feelings/emotions.

Religious "truths" are designed to be highly reactive in order to ensure total control over a given demographic of "captured" individuals that are easily controlled so that the rich can keep the exploited masses under control and easy to manipulate when these people can be fed dubious narratives with little to any fight-back or rebellion from the inculcated masses.

With religious authority a central theme that captures the attention in most people's minds, it's not surprising that people who rely upon their religious beliefs to make up a majority of their identified "identity", defending religious belief becomes a personal "war" for most hard-core believers.

No amount of "who benefits from religious control of society" will ever become sufficiently obvious to believers for them to question who benefits from their place as a cog in the wheel of corporately-correct, religious control over a majority of capitalism-centric societies.

Yes. truth can exist without facts. Just because one does not possess these facts, that doesn't cancel out the existence of truth.

God Bless

Yes. Truth is simply the concept that allows facts to exist.

A blackboard can exist without words written in chalk on it.

So truth can exist without facts introduced into it.

There are alot of facts that say there is a God and Jesus Christ is Messiah and alot of facts that disagree with that statement. Which facts have you seen and touched and know are real and which do you choose to believe?

2=2; no fact needed

"I love you" can be truth, with no fact to support it. There are philosophical truths that simply cannot be tested or verified by fact.