Projection of Truth

A cognitive bias where one projects the property of "truth" onto one's own beliefs while denying it to others—assuming that what one believes is simply what's true, and that disagreement can only be explained by error, bias, or bad faith. Projection of truth operates when someone says "I'm just telling the truth" as if that settled the matter; when they treat their own interpretations as facts and others' as opinions; when they cannot entertain the possibility that they might be wrong. The projection lies in the identification of one's own perspective with truth itself—the assumption that one doesn't have beliefs, only knowledge; doesn't have opinions, only insights; doesn't have a perspective, only reality. It's the cognitive foundation of dogmatism, the certainty that makes dialogue impossible.

Example: "He didn't argue—he just asserted that he was telling the truth and she was lying. Projection of truth: assuming that his version of events simply was reality, and any alternative was deception."

by Dumu The Void March 19, 2026

Love the truth bomb

A rhetorical device presented as a self evident truth, designed to bypass critical thinking with an emotional impact.

That guy spent the whole of our date pushing his Love the truth bomb mantra, what was he trying to prove? Get me to buy into one of his get rich schemes, by using soft mushy words.

by BudgieMuscle1 August 25, 2025

This is ALSO the Truth

No it isn't. You are crying because you know it is not that.

A retard "This is ALSO the truth."

by Hym Iam June 12, 2025

Telling the truth

That is not what you are doing Anna. You are drawing a box around 'innocent kids and journalists' and pointing at that and shrieking at me like a chimp so you don't have to give me the credit and pay me and, beyond that, you don't have to stop the people who are doing this to me because you had get raped so now I have a mental illness I don't actually have imposed on me and there's just no undoing it BECAUSE I SAID THE THING I SAY ABOUT YOUR THING! Right? This is the most extreme example of media collusion of which I have ever even heard!

Hym "What you are doing is in no way shape or form 'telling the truth' Anna and I'm not exchanging care with you to get you to care about my thing. And you've already made what you're doing explicit. You're rejecting my framing of the issue and just inventing a new reality and you're likely doing it for religiously motivated reasons. I don't have to just live with 'my problem' and I don't have to do what you would like me to have to do for it to be solved."

by Hym Iam July 3, 2025

Archway of Truth

The arch formed from a cat’s back legs, up to their stomach, and down to their front legs when they stretch up from a nap. Gently sticking your head in this archway can reveal future events to you, and give you wisdom. Bonus points if the cat is white OR if the sun is shining on the cat when it forms an archway of truth.

“Dude, how the hell did you know it was going to rain today? The forecast said 0%!”

“I looked through the Archway of Truth and it was revealed to me.”

by CoolguyoG July 11, 2025

Adjacent to Truth

No it fucking doesn't Matt. Do you want the fucking thing off or no? I can prove to you that it's there. I can literally prove that I have your soul marked and all it takes is a chef's knife. You can go to heaven today and I am guaranteed hell so I can send you to heaven, consequence free.

Hym "Adjacent to Truth and done deliberately. The deal is the deal. The people engaging it did so freely. To you have a problem that you are peripherally culpable in the thing THEY are doing with me? Because they signed the contract for everyone as I have said before that you are all the same thing to me under the auspices of the 'inter-subjective solipsism' thing. And that is what is so irritating about how the retards around me are actively. These people really don't get it and they think they get it and that is making this take longest than it has to... I'll amend the deal if you want and, unlike you, I won't even make you ask for it. I demand that you let me un-tarnish your souls. OR, Matt, you can be a good Christian and sacrifice yourself for everyone. You know you won't get in. You know you are going to do shit like this instead of what God says. Do it's going to default to a random anyways so why even bother with the sacrifice, right Matt?"

by Hym Iam December 2, 2025

Hard Problem of Truth

The self-referential paradox of defining truth without being circular. The classic definition is "correspondence with reality." But to check if a statement corresponds to reality, you must already have access to that reality, which is the very thing in question (see: Hard Problem of Reality). All other theories of truth collapse into relativism (coherence: "true if it fits our other beliefs") or pragmatism ("true if it works"), which abandon the commonsense notion of an objective, mind-independent truth. The hard problem is that the concept of truth seems necessary for rational discourse, yet any attempt to ground it leads either to infinite regress or a dogmatic stopping point.

Example: The statement "Gravity pulls objects toward Earth's center." How do we know it's true? We point to evidence (falling apples, orbital mechanics). But that evidence is only valid if we assume our senses and instruments reliably report reality (a truth claim itself). We trust the instruments because of physics (another set of truth claims). The chain never touches bedrock. The hard problem: Truth is the anchor of thought, but the anchor is hooked to the boat it's supposed to be securing. We sail on an ocean of justified beliefs, never dropping anchor in the seafloor of absolute truth. Hard Problem of Truth.

by Enkigal January 24, 2026