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How do you identify certain thing as true?

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[–] yikaft@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.