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> truth is what groups of people agreed on But just because a bunch of people agreed on it, doesn't mean it's "absolute truth", like how doctors for a long tim
by diggan 1y ago
> truth is what groups of people agreed on
But just because a bunch of people agreed on it, doesn't mean it's "absolute truth", like how doctors for a long time didn't want to wash their hand, because they didn't believe in germ theory. Countless of examples where we've ("scientists" and/or humans) all agreed on something, which later turned out not to be true.
And believing that truth is just "consensus between people" would lead to people never trying to go against that, even if their truth seems more truthy than the "established" truth.
- garylkz 1y agoYes, it's truth as in "consensus" but not the absolute truth, and I don't think we are going to reach the absolute truth anytime soon. You're assuming that everyone will agree on the truth just because it's the "truth", but why do you think we no longer believe that earth is the center of world? There will always people who questions the truth and did research and study about it, discovers new observations of the subject and replace the existing if it convinced the majority. It's question that lead us closer to the truth (occasionally it does the opposite). That's why we made new discoveries, and that's why you are here questioning about the truthfulness of truth.