After saying we should let go of truth, a Buddhist author explains that truth assumes qualities of “ultimacy and finality,” which are then turned into “a rhetorical weapon” by fundamentalists.
This, however, is an oversimplification and a misunderstanding. Only “infallible” truth leads to ultimacy and finality; fallible truth does not.
Fallibilism holds that we know truth only in part—we do not grasp or possess the whole truth. Therefore, we can always learn more, gain a broader perspective, and correct what we once thought to be true but later discovered to be false.
The problem is not truth itself but overconfidence in its epistemological foundation—the assumption that one knows the “whole” truth, from all possible perspectives. There is always the possibility that one does not, and therefore cannot be fully certain, or at least, should not be so overconfident.
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