Yes; but only if you accept that FACT and TRUTH are different things.
TRUTH is what is commonly accepted as fact.
FACT is reality.
Keep in mind that at one point the TRUTH was that the sun revolved around the earth, but the FACT was the other way around.
Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Consensus is a kind of testing for truth, but truth itself. Hopefully, people will believe true things in aggregate, but sometimes your peers will agree on an untruth.
A philosopher would say that there is no truth, or at least we can’t be sure we know it. After all, what is “truth” when everything you perceive might not even exist?
An educator would say there are some things we can know for ourselves, like what “too hot” feels like or what “tasty food” is, some things we have to rely on experts for, like “how far away stars are” or “what the earth is made of”, and some things that aren’t objective at all and so can’t be known, like “who deserves this” or “what is immoral”. These are all kinds of truth.
dope@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I hear moral rightness and reasonable rightness knocking against each other here.
It might be as simple as “it works for them so maybe it would work for me”.
And there’s also “around here we say thus and thus. You are from around here, aren’t you?”
There has to be a more casual way of working with this stuff. As casual as monkeys poking anthills with sticks.