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I don't feel like I moved any goalposts, but I'll fully admit that I'm not among the best at using language here. Objective fact may be possible, but truth is a human value and I no longer believe that such a thing exists. It's actually rather simple to get there from just what you said above. If "Philosophy is the study of fundamental questions about the nature of reality, knowledge, and value." and "we don't have answers to the philosophical questions of our time", then it would seem to follow that we cannot agree on the nature of reality which would seem to me to mean that we cannot find a truth that all can agree upon.

Believe me, I'm not happy about it either.



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