Objective Truth

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” Marcus Auerelius. More often than not spoken words have a point. The truth of what is said can and will always have multiple sides, it's an inherent condition as humans that we can never truly base what we say and believe in the objective truth. We can search and search, tear down lies and build a new reality, and eventually reach a truth of instance, but everything we see and do is tainted by perception. For instance how these forces and beliefs work through multiple accounts is a key point in the story. This is why I believe that the objective truth, those in the story were trying to reach was never truly obtained. All those involved had their

That truth, the absolute truth is the only factor that is important and that perception is irrelevant because we are warped by outside factors. I confirm that our perceptions are based around what we see and witness. This is why I would argue the point of human experience for everything is we do is affected by experience. To say if a person was raised in a controlled setting away from outside influence, to fear a certain thing such as a mouse or even a certain person they’ve never met. Now in this case throughout their childhood they came to fear the harmless animal or person all because others told them it was so. The fact that the child fears it is no less irrelevant than the fact it is harmless, but this experience was their only perception of the animal or person, thus their perception become their truth. With this real life cases of this experience can be seen in past wars and cultures, for instance WW2. The allies’ propaganda stated that all Germans were inhuman Nazi’s, irrelevant to the fact either way. This is why I believe we as humans can only attempt to reach absolute truth. This is why our perceptions become our reality. Just as In a Grove, the characters come to their own beliefs based on perspective and preconceptions. They did not have any outside influence to sway their thoughts until the court. Thus by this point the reader can see how misguided and biased the characters of the story.

When our preconceptions lend us both knowledge and blind us to the facts. The woodcutter being one such instance of this stimuli. We immediately feel inclined to believe wholeheartedly in his facts. Only when presented with more information did we get the whole picture of the crime. This is why I restate the key point. Truth to us is a figurative concept, many people sadly think they can merely state something and make it fact, though this is not true. The closest we can get to the objective truth is by taking into account several or more perspective of the same thing. In all likelihood this is a point the author wanted to make known. We must have multiple confirming points of view for something to be credible. For by ourselves we only have a singular point of origin to base our truth off of. Thus there is no single truth, there is only perspective, and through which we come to base our truth and reality upon the