Re: My Truth, Your Truth, The Truth
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I think when people use this expression they're generally talking about motivations/beliefs/interpretions of events.
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a. Those externals things do then exist externally, which is very different from an hallucination of some kind.
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My statement is very basic, koolaid aside. There is one external, relativistic reality. Our individual reaction to it and representation of it is not a version of the truth, it remains a mere representation.
For example, Evolution can be viewed in one sense as a testing ground for how well a species representation of that external reality actually correlates to it. Not a congruency, naturally, but if your species is poor at correlating critical events and entities with the underlying truth of them then you'll be eating coal and burning rabbits too often for your own good.
It's not the 'truth' of the representation that matters it's the dependabiity of it correlation.
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