How do you identify certain thing as true?

    • fbsz@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      How do you classify by what you observe as reality, and further it could be true?

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        1 year ago

        Something that is measuerable and repeatable. And that anyone repeating with the same variables will get the same result.

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    1 year ago

    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/

    I’m still chunking through this and related entries, but this was a convenient starting point for me.

    I’m generally inclined to think of frameworks of truth-finding as having developed in a sort of taxonomy, like a tree. While groups will evaluate the same data similarly up to a point, say, problems with depth perception and colorblindness don’t prevent people from seeing something similar as conventional-seeing people do, the different methods of evaluating the same data come from context/field-specific standards, faculties, or methods.

    If a thing description is adequately modally robust or is true across different viewpoints, that seems to me a good indication it is true.

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      1 year ago

      What if our assumptions could be false? What gurantees it be truth? Or in other words, why it shouldnt be false?