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> The problem is that there's no such thing as a positive truth. Truth always refers to a certain framework which is shared and acknowledged by a given group, w
by taejo 8y ago
> The problem is that there's no such thing as a positive truth. Truth always refers to a certain framework which is shared and acknowledged by a given group, which also distinguishes groups one from another. (So we may say, truth is necessarily a question of ideology.)
Aristotle defined truth essentially correctly: "To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true."
Are you saying that reality is also ideological (quite a radical claim) or simply that perceptions of reality (and therefore what people think is true) are ideological (which is a rather tamer claim)?
- masswerk 8y agoHowever, we do know, at least since Kant, that perception is not a simple matter of apperception. Reality is beyond reach and we have to resort to internal combinational capabilities to assert reality, thus considered a construct. Constructed reality always adheres to broader frameworks, retroactive interpretation, etc. Moreover, when it comes to abstract concepts, perception isn't really a means of asserting reality anymore. How could we check a proposition like, "The US is ruled by the deep state" by simple perception? In fact, when we are confronted with a proposition like this, it is much more for the overall credibility that we allow to be attributed to the proposition and/or its source and how it fits to our own broader world view, whether we tend to acknowledge the proposition or to reject it. (Fact checking may be here seen as a sophisticated approach to rejecting the proposition at first.) So, yes, ideology is a thing and is to be considered as part of what we use to acknowledge as truth.