Truth -- Wikipedia
June 6th, 2022 at 6:09PMTHE TRUTH VERSUS REALITY
Maybe it's beyond my brain's capacity to comprehend shit, but the idea -- let alone the fact, just the idea -- that there are "theories of truth" literally breaks my concentration. If you want to dive down that rabbit hole, though, be my guest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth
If the truth isn't an idea that corresponds to reality, then what's it corresponding to? To someone else's idea that allegedly corresponds to reality. WTF? Smart people cannot be that dumb. For instance, I think capitalism is better than socialism and I can argue my belief with someone who thinks socialism is better than capitalism, but how can anyone argue what truth is? I think my belief is true and a socialist thinks his is. If we have different conceptions of truth, does that mean we actually agree? Is his idea of false my idea of true?
No. No. No. That would be absurd. The "great debate" over "truth" is really just a matter of convention, disagreement over dogmatic standards and social protocols and scientific studies between "intellectuals" seeking the epistemological Holy Grail: public consensus. Reality is not the standard of measurement here. Agreement is. Who is anyone to stand alone in their mind, to trust in their ability to know reality, independently, without relying on a "second opinion" or blindly following what's popular or consulting a "higher" authority? And that's when disillusioned skeptics chime in and claim they can't trust anyone, least of all the "experts", tossing out their own knowledge just as flippantly, meanwhile there's a three-year-old somewhere right now learning how to lie through his teeth to all of us idiots.