Truth

It's not true because it's beautiful, it's beautiful because it's true

Is it important to you that your beliefs are objectively true? Or do you care more about whether they are emotionally satisfying? Or whether they conform to the norms of your in-group?

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." -Galileo Galilei

The importance of truth can be found under trust, lying, misinformation, critical thinking, reality, and science. An analysis of the fractal nature of objective truth is on the Gödel page.

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." -Sir Winston Churchill

How can you tell whether you are honestly pursuing truth or falling victim to cognitive biases or logical fallacies? These are discussed on the science and critical thinking pages.

Does Objective Truth Exist?

This short video is a good example of the argument that subjective reality takes priority over the objective, and uses the placebo effect as an example. However, there is still an objective reality in the brain that produces that experience from the action of neurons, and the placebo effect doesn't just make you "feel" better, it produces chemical changes in the body. Otherwise there would be nothing to feel! Plus, it has been shown that honest placebos are often just as effective, implying that it may not be necessary to believe our myths literally for their metanarrative to still be powerful.

The fact that our experience of subjective reality can be changed by our beliefs is not evidence that reality itself is subjective, but that is the conclusion many people draw from it. To quote C. Thi Nguyen, "I'm more sure about the existence of this coffee cup than I am about my ability to understand complex philosophical arguments against it" (see The Gambler).

Is there an objective reality outside of our beliefts?

This video presents a more rationalist perspective.

Is There Objective Truth? Or Is Reality Subjective, Or a Social Construct?

Does Objective Morality Exist?

See the Ethics page for a discussion of objective morality based on the commonly referenced ideas of Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, and their many reaction videos.

Beauty is Truth and Vice Versa

See the beauty page for your Keats.

Objectively Good Music

Kamasi Washington - Truth

Lizzo - Truth Hurts