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 Been in an argument today: 

Is truth subjective or objective? 
 I learned:

Everybody has a subjective truth, their beliefs. 

Objective truth is derived through the scientific method, regardless of beliefs.  
 Even that I wouldn't say is objective truth, through the scientific method we model reality, we can't accurately describe it. So objective truth is unattainable.  
 If you’re God, truth is objective. If you’re human, I believe it can only be subjective. Humans are led entirely by incentives. God is not led by anything. He just is. 
 Truth is objective but we can’t completely know truth because we are limited by our subjective minds. 
 Is truth permanent or just a placeholder? Can we be certain anything is objectively true? 
 Everything is fluid so both are correct 
 bwhahahah 
#fuckfluid 
#lol
#smij #zapd 
 #🤷‍♂️ 
 Both 
Water is wet
Water is pretty
 
 it's also cold or hot, but it's never dry. never!!
your truths are less valid than mine. you are now one of them and must be canceled.

no, not really
;)
#smij #zapd 
 tried to #zap you, but says: ...wallet not set up..."
whaaaat!!?? 
 Appreciate the thought all good just zapless  
 It’s fractal. 
 That's way too big a question for social media format but I'll give a short answer.

Truth transcends the silly notion of object/subject duality that was brought into life by Aristotle. This "false" duality is only one tool of many to look at the world.
Truth is neither in the object or the subject, it is transjective. Meaning it's neither of them, or the relationship between the two.

First of all, we can only describe something from a human perspective, and though we seem pretty advanced to ourselves, we may be oblivious to many higher forms of consciousness.
And we can only give approximate descriptions with our flawed form of communication which is language, which in itself means that whatever we say is already NOT an absolute truth.

Maths is a lower tier truth, for it is verifiable.
But it's still a man-made concept, a tool to describe and navigate the world. But it still isn't necessarily "real".

This only poses more questions.

TLDR
Subject/object duality is a flawed, low tier description of reality. 
 Transjective.  
 Cool but unattainable 
 Truth, layer one, is objective.
Opinion, layer two, is subjective.
Ego has a difficult time separating the two. 
 Truth is a claim about the relationship between some statement that describes objective reality and objective reality itself.  It says that a statement is true if it correctly reflects objective reality.  But what does that mean exactly?  Can any statement correctly reflect objective reality, or are statements too simplistic and poor to do so?  In many cases, statements have a VERY hard time being absolutely true.  You might think the sky is blue, but maybe not to a mantis shrimp.

It would be more useful to argue about whether there is a single objective reality, about which statements can reflect to some degree and be verified against to some degree. 
 1) What 
 😂😂 
 Which of the (at least) five kinds of truth are you talking about? Some are subjective, some objective. 
 Words are themselves subjective. 

Especially English words. 
 Yes. Language is a terribly coarse instrument and almost completely unable to convey information. 
 "Language is a terribly coarse instrument"

I really like that. 🧡 
 someone said "it's fluid" 
lol
but I think they were serious. bwhahahaha

#smij #zapd  
 Objectively objective 
 objective 
 I think "truth" in it's modern definition is irrelevant and should be given less importance.  Anyone can find "sCiEnCe/fAcTs" to back up any "truth" they believe in. 

Ideas>truth/facts 
 Subjective. 
 "truth" only lives in humans minds.
Universe has no "truth", it's just as it should be and nothing else. 
 If it's true it should always be True, else it is a theory, one that may hold ground for a a long while until a new theory pushes that once "truth" into false. Same goes with facts.