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Here's the thing about truth from my perspective:
There are systems designed or discovered by humans to assess
truth values. These systems not only point out our underlying
reality but, from our human perspective, they ARE our reality.
We cannot know any other way.
This does not mean there is an untouchable reality for us.
This does not mean that we are continually deluding ourselves
via social agreement.
But it does mean that we are forever limited in our certainties.
Pragmatically however, we have to go with what we have. Our
limitations are what they are. Overlapping maps describing the
same territories are our best hope for truth discovery because
we can only know the territories via the maps we produce and
things missing from one map may exist on another, with no
singular map capable of describing all of reality as we perceive
it.
The closest I've come to is that of metaphor. Analogy. The way
we compress our knowledge, histories and experiences into
ourselves, linking concept to concept as best we can.
Do we touch truth objectively? It's likely we do. Do we touch
truth subjectively? It's likely we do. Early philosophers were
keen on experiential data.
Human bias is, in my estimation, impossible to eliminate
because, no matter how good the systems, they're still human
systems.
Yet, we have no other perspectives to compare it to.
So we're stuck with our little mathematics, logic, the toys we
create the manipulate electrons and light across long spaces
around copper wires, strands of glass and across radio waves.
It's not ideal but it's the best we can do with what we have at
hand.
Worst part about being stuck as a human, we CAN'T know any other
way. Even if another species was to tell us something we can't
conceive with our human limitations, it would have to be
interpreted into a manner that we COULD understand... bringing
us closer to truths we're incapable of perceiving, but still not
touching THEIR understandings, because they've been dumbed down
for us.
