Submitted by Vico1730 t3_z0s4dw in philosophy
Jupiter20 t1_ix7zkug wrote
Truth is extremely overrated. Nobody can explain or define it, people use it mostly as a projection surface for their interests or ideologies. When you see "The truth about ..." then it's most likely bullshit. If you have to use it, then use it as a property of statements. For example: "This statement is not true because...". But "the truth"? That's some meta-level bs. And even with statements it often is not applicable. Statements are often too vague, they have circular logic, paradoxes and so on. Then truth as a concept just completely fails. It's just not very useful*.
*edit: except in mathematics, logic and so on of course
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