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There’s a theory that human reasoning evolved in such a way that humans collectively don’t search for the truth or the correct decision but rather for the most convincing reason. Whether or not this true it does appear to be how groups of humans act.

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Define truth, though.

In every language with a finite number of words there must be words that are not definable in terms of simpler words/concepts. Perhaps you’ve stumbled upon such a word with “truth”. I think it is obvious what I meant to most people.

I suspect your parent intended to imply that in practice "truth" is largely socially-generated. So your objective definition would be moot.

Not that I'd necessarily agree, its just an interpretation.

A linguistic extension of godels second incompleteness theorem? Interesting.

The truth is the set of things which are true.

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