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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.