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Self Evident Truths
Is there such a thing as self evident truth? What are some examples of self evident truths? While you're at it, can the essence of truth be contained in words or are words intrinsically inadequate to describe truth? and, can there be 'truths' or is there only 'the truth'? What truth is there in truths? Can you hold truths? Go about answering this (truly poorly phrased) inquiry any way you see fit. Fiction or non-fiction (which of those is truer by the way?) poetry or prose (truly it matters not) concurrence or descent, ignorance or bliss, truth or dare... Have at it!!!
roboggeek in Philosophy

It is what it is.

For centuries philosophers have struggled over it. Whether they believed that it was death, it was the loss of hope or even the 'it girl', the definition and purpose of it has been the rosetta stone and led to some mixture of insanity and bored college philosophy majors who smoke a bit too much pot and they get into arguments on Reddit. But a breakthrough was made in 1959 by physicists at Harvard when the great Doctor Henry Schnellmanberg proclaimed that it is what it is. At the time this esteemed professor was at a crossroads of his life, having just given up a professional surfing career to pursue his lifelong dream of merging the fields of quantum physics with existentialist philosophy. Everyone laughed at Schnellmanberg until he published his famous ten word scientific treatise entitled, "What is it and where did I leave it". The body of this paper said simply, "It is what it is, and that is it, really." Critics scoffed at the brevity of this paper, but soon it gained traction and of course now this concept is accepted as fact.