Commentary
What is truth?
For many, I’m sure, that’s an easy question to answer. For philosophers, not so much.
Plato firmly believed that truth was something to be uncovered, unearthed, and examined. An absolutist in the extreme, genuine knowledge, he argued, was attainable.
Other prominent philosophers, however, vehemently disagreed. Truth, they said, was subjective and highly malleable. That strain of thought is particularly virulent today, with people being encouraged to speak their own version of their truth.
Sophistry aside, most of us can agree that there’s no such thing as “my truth” or “your truth.” There’s the truth, and then there’s everything else. Truth’s “character” is both logically and empirically sound. But just because we can define truth, and just because most people know the difference between fact and fiction, it doesn’t mean that the idea of truth—or, to be more specific, the truth—will be respected.
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