"In philosophy, the fundamentals are metaphysics and epistemology. On the basis of a knowable universe and of a rational faculty's competence to grasp it, you can define man's proper ethics, politics and esthetics. (And if you make an error, you retain the means and the frame of reference necessary to correct it.) But what will you accomplish if you advocate honesty in ethics, while telling men that there is no such thing as truth, fact or reality? What will you do if you advocate political freedom on the grounds that you feel it is good, and find yourself confronting an ambitious thug who declares that he feels quite differently?"--Ayn Rand Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It (New York: Signet, Kindle ed.), 16.

@rich56635 I'm a midwit granted, but objective truth is rare. We should rather have a market for truth, out of which rises a common consensus. We should not have authoritarians dictate truth based on whim.

@FreezePeach4me @rich56635 Authoritarians dictating truth is the opposite of objective truth. Objective truth is something that anyone can see for themselves (even if there is nobody else around to have a "consensus" about it).

@emptyUtf8String @rich56635 Given there's 1 true reality, how do we know whose perceptory senses captures it correctly & whose doesn't? How do you know for sure that I don't see blue when you see red, when actually science says it's black? Which science holds authority? Which dictionary?