Is there any serious doubt truth doesn’t exist ?
My teacher (who is not a philosophy teacher ) said truth didn’t exist. However I know cogito ergo sum ( even if it’s all a simulation or sth , I know I’m what is called a human organism in the fabric of this world, real or fake ) , I also know the earth has to do 584 million miles relative to the sun to do a whole orbital rotation around it . So unless I’m missing something, what my teacher said isn’t correct . So truth exists. What is more likely is that we can’t appreciate reality entirely because our perception is tainted. In my philosophy class we always talked about everyone seeing the world with tainted glasses so it’s impossible to see reality. But that doesn’t imply reality doesn’t exist , we just don’t have the ability to reach it , and we may never will. But we can still reach to some truths . I know in 24 hours the earth would have moved 40k km and it will be night again .
I got that one from something in the appendix of hofstadter's GEB, although he didn't use Aristotle. It's a simpler demonstration of Godel's incompleteness theorem.
It seems relevant to a discussion about existence of objective truth. Aristotle when confronted with the statement either has to be incomplete and say I give up or unsound and agree with it. Yet you and I on the outside can look at it and have no problem seeing that it is true because we have a different perspective.
That statement doesn't entail a contradiction when Aristitle believes it, because there's nothing to indicate being wrong means that Aristotle does agree with it
I'm not sure how you're distinguishing Aristotle believing it from Aristotle agreeing with it.
Aristotle agreeing would make him wrong. It doesn't say what he'd be wrong about.
