Aren’t There Truths I Can Only Know Because of My Lived Experience?
July 11, 2022
#STRaskStand to Reason
Question about how to reconcile the fact that there are things one can only know through experience with the idea that truth can be known apart from a person’s experiences.
* “Woke” culture says, “Only I can know this because of my lived experience,” which seems to contradict the idea that truth can be known apart from those experiences, but I also find myself experiencing things and learning things as a parent that I couldn’t have otherwise known, so how do we reconcile this with the idea of objective, publicly accessible truth?
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