On Truth
What is truth?
My current understanding of truth comes from Physics, and Kung-Fu Panda.
Physics gives me the intuition that truth is an objective fact, established by scientific evidence.
Whilst Kung-Fu Panda gives me the intuition that truth is subjective. That there is no secret ingredient in the Secret Ingridient Soup, except for the belief that there is one. That, for something to be seen as true, you or others simply have to believe it.
These are quite contradictory versions of truth. And whilst the human world seems to operate on both just fine, I would like to grapple with the philosophy of truth a little more rigorously to understand what it is, and what it isn’t.
To that end, I am planning to use this piece to digesting the leading philosophical theories on truth, and their relation. All in hopes of learning wether physics of Kung-Fu Panda is in the right.
Some of the questions leading my wondering are:
Does truth exist? if yes, what makes it so?
Are there truths that cannot be proven?
Is truth independent of belief?
What is the relationship between truth and evidence?
What is the relationship between truth and consensus? Can something be true for one person and false for another?
Is objective truth possible for human beings to access?