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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by downvotetruth on Saturday December 03, 2022 @03:47PM (#33847176)
No, it does not. A post-truth era may be one in which truth & falsity are not absolute & the only choices. Relativity brings about the realization that two people can witness the same event, obtain different measurements (photon counts) & both be correct.
Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by ycombigator on Saturday December 03, 2022 @04:06PM (#33847359)
This example doesn't mean what you think it means.
Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by AnimalMuppet on Saturday December 03, 2022 @03:59PM (#33847281)
If you've got an experiment (either relativistic or quantum, or both) where two individuals can obtain different photon counts, I'd like to hear about it.
Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by JadeNB on Saturday December 03, 2022 @04:19PM (#33847475)
> If you've got an experiment (either relativistic or quantum, or both) where two individuals can obtain different photon counts, I'd like to hear about it.

The experiment could simply be measuring photon counts at a pre-agreed location after a pre-agreed duration, where the elapsed time is measured by a local clock. (Probably it is reasonable to argue that this is not a "reasonable" experiment, but it's beyond me to make rigorous the sense in which it should be excluded.)

Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by dinosaurdynasty on Saturday December 03, 2022 @06:37PM (#33848709)
There is stuff like the Unruh effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unruh_effect
Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by downvotetruth on Sunday December 04, 2022 @11:32AM (#33855091)
Description was trying to avoid the misnomer eponym ("Stigler's law").
Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by Klinky on Saturday December 03, 2022 @05:02PM (#33847875)
I think it would be erroneous to try to apply concepts of micro-level phenomena to macro-level societal events. The levels of abstraction between the two likely turns that low-level ambiguity into background noise.

For example, someone could never logically claim the photons they perceived indicted someone wasn't in front of their gun when they pulled the trigger, while everyone else in the vicinity states they clearly saw the person in front of the gun. There is not enough uncertainty around the behavior of photons for us to consider their explanation as truth.