You're talking about Linguistics, of which there's been an Epistemological overlay in recent years. Branches of Epistemology have gone Western Mysticism buck-wild, and crossed with Postmodernism. Which as far as I'm concerned, is the bastard child of Dadism and missing the point of Existentialism entirely. IMHO, the rejection of "truth" in postmodernism is sort of an "**** it" gesture, a nod to the absurdity of reality, and no matter how well intentioned, opens the floodgates to all sorts of irrational beliefs.
You're using Truth and truth interchangeably, when they really aren't. Truth is a religious conviction: A belief so strongly held that nothing can disprove it -- even hard evidence to the contrary -- while truth is and empirically verifiable and falsifiable #hashtag for the commonly agreed-upon knowledge of an era.
People in the 21st Century seem to have a real problem with the idea that there may be no concrete answers. All we have to form "knowledge" are a web of mutually supportive, well-founded beliefs, that support other beliefs. The idea that may be all there is seems to terrify people: They want Truth, Capitalized, Bold-Lettered Truths about the word. And they'll reject any worldview shown to have flaws, no matter how minor compared to their own.
The only path to truth is to discard everything one has been indoctrinated to believe, and form a logical foundation on which justifiable beliefs can be rested. The rest is dogma and cultural baggage.
You're using Truth and truth interchangeably, when they really aren't. Truth is a religious conviction: A belief so strongly held that nothing can disprove it -- even hard evidence to the contrary -- while truth is and empirically verifiable and falsifiable #hashtag for the commonly agreed-upon knowledge of an era.
People in the 21st Century seem to have a real problem with the idea that there may be no concrete answers. All we have to form "knowledge" are a web of mutually supportive, well-founded beliefs, that support other beliefs. The idea that may be all there is seems to terrify people: They want Truth, Capitalized, Bold-Lettered Truths about the word. And they'll reject any worldview shown to have flaws, no matter how minor compared to their own.
The only path to truth is to discard everything one has been indoctrinated to believe, and form a logical foundation on which justifiable beliefs can be rested. The rest is dogma and cultural baggage.
