Reaching truths

The author proposes that truth is bound to context, but some truths have greater reach because they hold across more contexts, and that this framing reconciles objective and subjective views of truth. The essay argues that postmodernism rightly notes all knowledge is mediated by symbols and perspective, but wrongly concludes that no context can be more true than another, since that claim is itself an objective assertion. Citing Alfred Korzybski, Lee Smolin and Kurt Gödel, it holds that every model, including mathematics and physics, is incomplete, so truth is best approximated by combining many models and weighing them by probability.