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Truth obviously does exist. If your truth says that touching a 200 kilovolt live power line is healthy and you do it, you will die because the truth is somethin
by fidgewidge 4y ago
Truth obviously does exist. If your truth says that touching a 200 kilovolt live power line is healthy and you do it, you will die because the truth is something else. Humans of all stripes agree on millions of true but unpleasant or inconvenient things every single day, successfully.
The problems are all around a very narrow and specific set of topics where a contested and highly impactful claim can't be directly established or tested by the vast majority, and thus to determine what is or is not "true" boils down to a trust in institutions problem. Some people say X is true, other people say Y is true, but none of them can actually see the truth directly with their own eyes and thus who you believe boils down to large sets of ambiguous priors.