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Nature of truth. There is an orthodoxy and a paradigm. There is a right way until there's another right way and the old right way isn't right anymore. This is the pragmatic theory of truth.
There is also correspondence theory and coherency theory of truth.
A fun thing to do is try to explain truth is without using the word truth or a word that means truth. You get something stupid like 'that which is" as if atomic reality isn't sent through senses and constructed mentally in a way that makes sense to us ie Transcendental Idealism or a weird epiphenominalism or whatever.
Uh... I'm a bit out of my depth with these philosophical concepts tbh.
I like to view the world through the lens of quantification and model building. I believe that almost any concept and relationship could at least in theory be expressed in quantitative terms. This might be an optimistic or even unrealistic assumption, but it makes life much easier because it allows me to conceptualize 'truth' via good old empiricism: the more granular and plentiful our data or our sample of past experiences, the clearer our picture of how the world functions will become, and the better we can pin down "the truth".
So yeah, my answer to the question of which epistemological school of thought I subscribe to is that I'm an empiricist at heart. No idea if that makes sense or was a productive reply though.
Quote (Skinned @ 27 May 2020 17:40)
Got suspended for this post?
Not sure what is controversial.
You called him "autismbob". Probably got suspended for flaming/personal attack.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on May 27 2020 10:44am