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> thinks like that

These aren’t truths. It’s cases like “is the earth flat?” that have an answer in objective reality and people still argue about it where some people are simply wrong.

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What's addressed as truth is not some holy artifact handed out for us by God, or what some theory of Logic defines as such.

It's what people consider and call a truth. Language terms are defined by use.

And people absolutely argue, fight, unite, or even go to war, for the version of those that they'll consider and call the truth of such matters.

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The English language has multiple independent definitions of the same word. You’re misusing that ambiguity here.

“sincerity in action, character, and utterance” is different than “the body of real things, events, and facts”

This distinction very much exists in how people talk about such things. You don’t need to “have faith” that something like gravity exists such that when you trip you can fall down. “We hold these truths to be self evident” isn’t how you talk about the distance between NYC and Boston.

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You say that, but some people really do give you a hard time if you try to assert that there is one, definite, objective reality.
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