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Can someone explain or provide an example of the epistemological perspective that most coincides with your point of view of truth and the way that a human mind grasps reality? I am not sure I understand this issue.
Also, can you elaborate or explain why it is the best explanation as to why the mind is able to understand its world?
Can humans really understand the actual truth about objects or ideas in the world? Why or why not?
Are there any resource sites to expound on these issues?

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I.Can someone explain or provide an example of the epistemological perspective that most coincides with your point of view of truth and the way that a human mind grasps reality? I am not sure I understand this issue.

On epistemology - it is the study of what we can know. Discussions in philosophy of mind often begin with this definition, but in the matter of truth vis a vis subjective perspective - there is no "we." There is only "you" or "I"; where your perspective informs your knowledge of the world, my perspective informs my knowledge of the world etc.

Truth in the epistemological sense is simply what one mind believes based on its perception ie. its gathering and processing of external stimuli. While truth in the absolute sense is a priori, truth in the epistemological sense is a posteriori, or necessarily known by experience.

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