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by drdeca 1945 days ago
> There is no such thing as truth, just a frame that you are objectively reporting from.

Nah.

“If someone tells you that there is no truth, they are telling you not to believe them. So don’t” - Idr who this is a quote from.

The claim that there is no truth is a pointless one. Well, it is pointless to believe*. There may be uses to making the claim.

*exception: if someone can observe your innermost beliefs and is threatening that if you don’t believe it, then they will do something you don’t want, then it could be worthwhile. But that’s true of any belief.

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We're just meat bags with terrible sensory perception and reasoning skills. This is the reason I am more open to claims of "no reality" and the like. Plato's cave but no one sees the whole picture
The claim “we cannot ever know anything with absolute perfect certainty” is a quite different statement than “nothing is true”.

Even “we aren’t able to properly conceptualize any true statements” is, while not plausible, is still better than “nothing is true”. (It may be that many things we think are true are fundamentally confused/slightly-nonsensical in ways that we can’t correct by virtue of how our thought processes work, but I don’t consider it plausible that nothing we can believe is entirely true.)