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I mean, isn't that precisely how "truth" works? The minority are branded heretics and crazies (especially in this age of division but also throughout history) unless it turns out they were on to something and the common consensus shifts.

Truth might as well be synonymous with common consensus, it has nothing to do with facts.

To use the Earth and Sun example again, when Galileo said "And yet [the Earth] moves."[1] he meant that truths and facts do not care for the other. The Church and the world-at-large might say the truth is the Sun orbits the Earth, but the fact is the Earth orbits the Sun.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves




> Truth might as well be synonymous with common consensus, it has nothing to do with facts.

this isn't what normal people mean when they say 'truth', usually they mean what you're referring to as 'facts.'

> he meant that truths and facts do not care for the other. The Church and the world-at-large might say the truth is the Sun orbits the Earth, but the fact is the Earth orbits the Sun.

Galileo meant that the truth of the matter doesn't care for public opinion.


>this isn't what normal people mean when they say 'truth', usually they mean what you're referring to as 'facts.'

The specific terms used aren't necessarily contrary to the point I am making.

What people consider as "truths" or "facts" (not actual facts but so-called "facts") have nothing to do with actual facts or reality at large.

>Galileo meant that the truth of the matter doesn't care for public opinion.

That can just as easily be rephrased as: Facts of the matter don't care for truths of the matter.




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