M. Dilger on Nostr: Truth is a claim about the relationship between some statement that describes ...
Truth is a claim about the relationship between some statement that describes objective reality and objective reality itself. It says that a statement is true if it correctly reflects objective reality. But what does that mean exactly? Can any statement correctly reflect objective reality, or are statements too simplistic and poor to do so? In many cases, statements have a VERY hard time being absolutely true. You might think the sky is blue, but maybe not to a mantis shrimp.
It would be more useful to argue about whether there is a single objective reality, about which statements can reflect to some degree and be verified against to some degree.
Published at
2024-06-04 07:32:52Event JSON
{
"id": "1617a313611b8ce56dded98a8838398c6a07e9581ece35e9493b73b1ed766841",
"pubkey": "ee11a5dff40c19a555f41fe42b48f00e618c91225622ae37b6c2bb67b76c4e49",
"created_at": 1717486372,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"p",
"fe7f6bc6f7338b76bbf80db402ade65953e20b2f23e66e898204b63cc42539a3"
],
[
"e",
"e316a2f0756cfed060bcd1192fa4f3c73b2d1ebfc6d541ca578ddf3f1702d816",
"wss://nos.lol/",
"root"
]
],
"content": "Truth is a claim about the relationship between some statement that describes objective reality and objective reality itself. It says that a statement is true if it correctly reflects objective reality. But what does that mean exactly? Can any statement correctly reflect objective reality, or are statements too simplistic and poor to do so? In many cases, statements have a VERY hard time being absolutely true. You might think the sky is blue, but maybe not to a mantis shrimp.\n\nIt would be more useful to argue about whether there is a single objective reality, about which statements can reflect to some degree and be verified against to some degree.",
"sig": "2ea73b6b416758d194b85e185270be41d0d7a651d5872b0900d919c92163826cf61e517f6e72b440678f351c686d41ce1d1cd7c73855f30ddbaa73ced17185ce"
}
