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If you want to bring facts into this, I have bad news about metaphysical truth.

>The Problem of Priors ruins basically all of science

>Particulars vs Universals

>Your senses are organic chemical reactions that lose reality, then you use different chemical reactions that turn it into logical thought, further simplifying and allowing mistakes.

>Deflationary Theory of Truth is probably the correct one.

I don't need to know about gravity to know the sun will rise tomorrow, I can use my intuition. However, my intuition also says the earth is flat. So take what you will.





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