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HOW DO YOU DETERMINE TRUTH

Even though fundamentally I'm not entirely sure that we humans can know anything with absolute certainty... I think truth as far as we are concerned is based solidly in perception. This of course makes truth more of a grey scale type thing rather than a black and white. Which is consistent with my view on truth.

So - in application, I am sitting on a couch. Well, that's true right? Maybe.
I'm sitting on something that I've been instructed is called a couch. Maybe.
I'm sitting? Maybe, maybe I'm sleeping. *pinches self* hurts, but does that even prove anything? I think that our brains are quite smart enough to trick us into just about anything. And if you disagree with me how do you explain delusions? So all I can really say is that my perception of the current situation is that I am sitting on a couch.

But lets go for something easier. Gravity causes objects to be attracted to each other. Yes! I know this. This I know because I've seen it a million times. I take a step and rather than floating toward space I come right back to earth EVERY time. The earth, being much larger than I am pulls me a lot harder than I pull it. And over and over again, gravity pulls things together. And so I know this to be true.

Done yet? Or are you thinking of swans already? Swans are white right? Except for the ones that are black. My point being that since we cannot possibly experience everything in the universe, how can we be sure of anything just because it happens the same way every time we see it? So to round everything back up - we can't be absolutely certain of truth in nearly any situation. Therefore the best we can do is determine truth based on our perception of the world and the situations we face.