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		thrance on Feb 2, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compos... Depends, if you're a realist [1] (like most) then there can be such a thing as absolute truth, that you may not always be able to access. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_realism?wprov=sf...

askl56 on Feb 2, 2025 [–]

This is teleologically false.

A teleological argument that assumes truth is contingent upon a specific worldview would indeed be flawed, because it would make truth an artifact of a given perspective rather than something independent of it.

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