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Truth in Art
You concluded that truth can never been obtained in art, but if you consider art to be a reflection of reality then surely it would always be true?

Add-on: Perhaps you can derive personal truths from Art. Truths do not always need to be on a scientific basis. If you're looking for truths on more scientific basis you can look at William Utermohlen and the effects of dementia on the mind. You can see how his brain is deteriorating from his self portraits. Each year his recognition of himself worsens.

You say that in art, critics are the main method of determining the value of an artwork. This can be an issue because esteemed critics are not readily available and often critics disagree so it would benefit to get the opinion of multiple. Would there be value in automating this process? For example, an AI could be trained on a dataset of artworks with ratings from multiple esteemed critics. This would aim to be able to predict the average consensus that these critics would have on any artwork. Would this be useful? Would this be feasible or are the criteria for artistic value too nuanced to be picked up in a statistical model? Could this help us better understand the nature of truth in art? Turtle down (discuss • contribs) 05:59, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Re: When Truth Fails in Science
To add on, scientists only write/research about what they care about. This leads to implicit bias in the conducting of the experiment which might lead to a flaw in experimental design. Furthermore, as you mentioned, these scientists would hence have an agenda in the success of the hypothesis. There is also theory-laden observation in science, where the results and experiments pre-supposes existing scientific theories which might not be true. Scientists should seek to falsify existing scientific theories, which would lead us closer to the truth. However, scientists have a tendency not to do this.

Truth in Deontological Ethics
In your contribution you contrast deontological approaches to moral truths with relativist approaches. Perhaps it might be useful to note that not all non-deontological approaches are relativistic?