A bad example, alas. Whether the earth orbits the sun, the sun orbits the earth, or they orbit their common centre of mass (or indeed some other point) depends entirely on your frame of reference. Relativity is surprisingly post-modernist in places (but in a *good* way!).
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There are truths about this.
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Sorry, you lost me. I should clarify that I'm not saying you're wrong, only that your specific "earth orbiting the sun" example was... uh... what's the word? Ah! 'Problematic'!
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Knowledge is true belief. What is truth? A nice way to see it is robustness to experimentation. Note that other cultures could have formalized differently an observably equivalent belief. Does not seem to occur often however, so the construction seem to be fairly constrained.1/2
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2/2. I see truth criteria or methodology as the cultural norms that science as we know it as imposed on its own construction (although sometime other norms prevails which can lead to error). What I argue is that there is ground for preference for these norms over others.
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