I’m going to agree with @guest here. It’s not meant as a comprehensive guide to reality, but to illustrate in simple terms the concept that the point one views things from, or the incomplete information one has in an issue, causes one to only see a single facet of reality. The number of interpretations is irrelevant, as is the fact that even to us the viewer this could be incomplete truth. For instance, there are several possible ways you could shine a light source on an object to cause those shadows, but we only see one light source... so on and so on. There are many ways to create an optical illusion and even what WE see could be incomplete. It’s relative. The point is exactly that- the truth as we can know or is relative- absolute truth is only for the omnipotent, if any walk among us.
We can’t actually know if we ever find absolute truth, we can only satisfy whatever our personal burden of proof for truth is. As you say though: the truth may not always be so complicated- Timmy broke the vase because he was angry. Pretty simple in practical terms. This applies more to the fact that truth can be relative to point of view. For instance: Take an issue like immigration. Someone in the south western states was robbed by an undocumented alien. If that person wasn’t here- they wouldn’t have been robbed by them. This is true. They would have been safer with stricter border controls. But- in the same state is a school girl born to a law abiding family of aliens. She is a citizen and an honor student. He dad does charity work, her family are good people. Her father saved a man’s life when he was in an accident out in the field. If her father wasn’t there- that man would be dead. There are many angles and more complexity to immigration- but both views are true at once based...
... on perspective. Having never felt threatened by someone I knew to be undocumented, I’ve had mostly good experiences and seen good people. I don’t see them as a threat. I understand if Someone lived in a pocket of crime such as gang wars spilling over the border or the like They might feel differently. Neither view invalidates the other. They are pieces of a complex and multifaceted issue. Since we humans are biased to certain beliefs- what we would think was the “absolute truth” based on all views we know differs. Some people feel that borders shouldn’t even exist, some feel that “like” people should all be with those “like them” and many are in between or all over. All these people have mostly the same facts and access to the same perspectives on things, but make different conclusions. As humans, we generally must accept truths as relative, and consider that “functional and logical” is the best we can get to “absolute.”
A good illustration of sloppy language, and lefty 'reframing'.
Could be several 'truths' for something, but only 1 fact. Don't confuse 'truth', and 'fact'. It's like mixing up 'honesty', and 'integrity'. ANY observer may (by not lying) tell EXACTLY what's observed; ie: 'telling the truth'. The FACT/s may be something else, or a combination of the (observed) 'truths'.
Too many lefty-greeny progressive pissants talk of 'truth', but don't know they're looking for the word for reality; "fact". To self-justify, and feel better (because they're usually ill-educated, ignorant, indoctrinated, self-hating imbeciles) they invented the bullshit phrase: "alternative truth". Examples of this class of marxist morons is any typical 'antifa' arsehole.
Life's easier by avoiding these cultural criticism c**ksuckers.
I can’t say I think you’re 100% wrong, but your entire argument boils down to: “If you don’t posses complete omnipotence you are delusional or a leftist.” Humans are incapable of knowing absolute fact for any event. By the nature of how we interact with the world we always only have our own observations and the observations of others. We can take the subjective viewpoints of people and each combine them to conclude what must be the logical “fact” but we cannot know. Two people with the same set of “facts” can conclude a different thing, and compared to the “absolute fact” both can be wrong. We can try to gather as much information, demonstrate repeatability, basically apply burdens of proof like the scientific method to our assumptions and information to at least make sure it is a functional fact- but as soon as new information is available the “facts” as we know them change. Since we can’t know everything about anything, there will always be potentially I’m factored information.
Could be several 'truths' for something, but only 1 fact. Don't confuse 'truth', and 'fact'. It's like mixing up 'honesty', and 'integrity'. ANY observer may (by not lying) tell EXACTLY what's observed; ie: 'telling the truth'. The FACT/s may be something else, or a combination of the (observed) 'truths'.
Too many lefty-greeny progressive pissants talk of 'truth', but don't know they're looking for the word for reality; "fact". To self-justify, and feel better (because they're usually ill-educated, ignorant, indoctrinated, self-hating imbeciles) they invented the bullshit phrase: "alternative truth". Examples of this class of marxist morons is any typical 'antifa' arsehole.
Life's easier by avoiding these cultural criticism c**ksuckers.