Before you tell me what is true, tell me what is truth. Two thought revolutions have disrupted our understanding of our most common knowledge terms. To find common ground, we must go beyond the truth of our declarations to the warrants that permit us to judge them as true.
TRUE? GOOD? BEAUTIFUL? 
Thank you for this feast for my mind! A Sociologist at heart (though not by degree or profession), I read with great interest, “My Argument in Brief”. As I began my reading, I was excited by what you had to share and considered your “argument” thought-provoking and very relatable and informative.
By nature, someone very interested in people, their unique personalities and perspectives and the “why” of the choices we each make, I found this piece very illuminating and educational! Giving attentive consideration to your words, I consider this writing to be very insightful and TRUSTworthy. 😉 😊
Thank you for giving me the benefit of such well-written wisdom. This is a real contribution that can be savored again and again. Paul Kemp
I just heard James Carville on BR NPR comment briefly on “wokeism”. He states that it is individualism over point of view. Are we, for example, victims because we are White, male, balding persons? Or are we an inclusive member of a group as a united front that believes in progressive policies? Opinions are useful when combined with others of the same ilk. But those combined opinions must bear some truth, even tho were are entitled to our group opinions but not our group facts.
Tom, I appreciate your thoughts. My mind goes immediately to your distinction between opinion and fact. I think this is a sterile dichotomy. I ask you to check my entry in these pages “Facts are Fluxy Things.” We fudge a necesssary distinction when we see fact and opinion as our only options. Opinions are private. One’s conviction and passion in advancing them are private too. Facts in my view are also private as they are primary percepts of the simplest sort. What is common to individuals and groups and is the only part of our reasoning that is capable of productive thought is a third category that is neither fact nor opinion. It is judgment. Hypotheses and scientific theories are judgments. So are verdicts in court. So is what you say about fact and opinion, which is why I can argue against these as exclusive categories of thought. Judgments are inherently public, shared, traceable to our universal rational capacity. Also uncertain. This is my judgment, of course, and you are welcome to dispute it. I encourage that because it is in our common conceptual understandings that judgments gain strength. Cheers!