I’m glad that you found my comment helpful. It was certainly worthwhile for me trying to articulate my qualifications of the term “clear truth”.
I’d go on to say that “a clear truth condition” and “an agreed upon method of measuring”, to me, work out as having the same meaning.
I dislike using the word “truth” outside of its precise meaning in mathematical logic, because it is not very useful instrumentally—there is often no way to check whose interpretation is closer to “what really happened” or what would happen in every single one of many counterfactual scenarios.
For example, one of the standard things a therapist says during a couple’s counseling in response to the contradictory versions of what happened at some point in the rocky relationship is that “you have to accept that there is one partner’s truth and there is the other partner’s truth”. Both are completely sure in their version of what had transpired, and that the other partner has it wrong. Unfortunately, there is almost never a way to tell what “actually” happened, and even if there were, it would not be nearly as helpful going forward as working out real issues instead of dwelling on who said/did what and when and how this grudge can never be resolved without some major restitution.
I’m glad that you found my comment helpful. It was certainly worthwhile for me trying to articulate my qualifications of the term “clear truth”.
I dislike using the word “truth” outside of its precise meaning in mathematical logic, because it is not very useful instrumentally—there is often no way to check whose interpretation is closer to “what really happened” or what would happen in every single one of many counterfactual scenarios.
For example, one of the standard things a therapist says during a couple’s counseling in response to the contradictory versions of what happened at some point in the rocky relationship is that “you have to accept that there is one partner’s truth and there is the other partner’s truth”. Both are completely sure in their version of what had transpired, and that the other partner has it wrong. Unfortunately, there is almost never a way to tell what “actually” happened, and even if there were, it would not be nearly as helpful going forward as working out real issues instead of dwelling on who said/did what and when and how this grudge can never be resolved without some major restitution.