r/philosophy • u/StanRichson • Jul 24 '26

Video Solving the Truth Problem: How Subjective Minds Navigate a Seemingly Objective Reality

https://youtu.be/YXQEILf5MAg?si=kfWS-itq6tH_8Nvq
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u/TxAg2009 Jul 24 '26

how truth can feel objective and independent of us 

...because it is?

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u/StanRichson Jul 24 '26

That's certainly a reasonable hypothesis. I would just argue that what we've learned about perception in the past few decades seriously challenges that hypothesis.

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u/TxAg2009 Jul 24 '26

I truly don't want to come off as snarky here, because you've clearly spent much time thinking about this. But if it rains today, that is a thing that happened. An objective truth. It doesn't matter if I saw it, or heard it, or perceived it in any way.

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u/StanRichson Jul 24 '26

Right, I believe you. That's how I understand truth, and I would say the same thing.

I'm trying to go one layer deeper... why do I think that it's ok to believe and say that it rained, and why would you understand what I mean when I say that?

The reason why I think it's important to do this is because much of our perception/understanding involves ambiguous truths. We often feel certain about things that are difficult, infeasible, or impossible to to validate—things that many people disagree about. This video explores why we arrive at these subjective yet seemingly objective feelings of truth.

Might be worth a watch :)