In Good Company
I've been engaging in some fascinating conversations over on Substack with Darryl, Paige and Alison about the nature of truth, our capacity to receive it, and how we engage with it.
For much of my life, I have unconsciously assumed that truth was something rather like an object: something 'out there' waiting to be discovered, mapped, and understood. Science's search for a Grand Unified Theory of Everything perhaps reflects the same impulse—a hope that reality might ultimately be reduced to a single, elegant formulation.
Lately, however, I have begun to wonder whether we may be chasing a chimera.
For much of my life, I have unconsciously assumed that truth was something rather like an object: something 'out there' waiting to be discovered, mapped, and understood. Science's search for a Grand Unified Theory of Everything perhaps reflects the same impulse—a hope that reality might ultimately be reduced to a single, elegant formulation.
Lately, however, I have begun to wonder whether we may be chasing a chimera.
Is Truth Inexhaustible?
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