We live in an ever-changing world. This is no secret. The concept of "Post-Truth" has invaded the collective consciousness and has taken residence in the present moment seemingly at our expense. What can we define as Reality when Truth has it's foundations frequently obscured by falsehoods and unsound doctrines that counter the progress of all humanity in the form of major religious movements? Could it be that there are phases of Truth separated by degrees of temporal states or two truths? How can we prevent future generations afflicted with true-believer syndrome? It's no secret that previous societies were dominated by formal fallacies that prevented their evolution and still occasionally manifests to restrict the progress of students studying predicate logic.
When someone posts an old article online, I've observed many people react as if since the factual information happens to be outdated then it must be unreliable but the truth does not have an expiration date. How can we "hold these truths to be self-evident?" When new information throws doubt onto old beliefs, does it negate the validity of the previous experience? Many people accept the Bible as factually true only to blindly justify their beliefs in accordance with the weekly utterances of their local preacher but when they get home and learn about counter examples in the newspapers or on television, do they learn to live with both truths simultaneously? Ralph Waldo Emerson said that, "imitation is suicide," so should we all strictly adhere to our own personal truths or risk denying our inner reality? In my time enrolled at the university, it was clear that plenty students plagiarized and lifted information from their classmates in order to get good grades. Did they really learn anything? The honor code wouldn't exist without the persistence of this phenomena since human beings love to copy each other, especially the routines of the successful possibly due to our mirror neurons. Is this what's created the divine in our conception of Truth? What happens when a lie or falsehood gets copied down and shared as fact? It wouldn't change the hard truths embedded in physical existence of organic life but only the minds interpretation of reality. Therefore, in order to make progress towards understanding the secret of Truth, we should turn to the "Internalist vs. Externalist Conceptions of Epistemic Justification."
We can repeat quotes from the wise ones among us (What do Philosophers Believe?) all day long but if we don't come to these conclusions ourselves did we actually experience the truth behind the utterance? Do you trust the truth?
Truth according to the Etymology dictionary:
Deru:
Perhaps it could be said that the Truth is really like a tree that changes it's leaves depending on the season while the roots stay the same in the darkness of the fertile Earth. Maybe the secret is that there is no secret and it is you that is the truth.
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