subjective truth
Individually held belief
Subjective truth is a claim held to be true from an individual's perspective or experience, even when it cannot be verified objectively.
Chocolate is the best flavor expresses a subjective truth—valid for the speaker but not universally provable.
The phrase often appears in philosophical discussions contrasting personal belief with empirical fact, and sometimes dismissively to suggest someone's "truth" is merely opinion.
- point of viewOne's particular outlook
- unreliable narratorStoryteller whose credibility wavers
- eye of the beholderWhere judgment varies personally
- standpointPosition for judgment
- worldviewComprehensive belief framework
cultural relativism · phenomenology · first person · solipsism · existentialism · inner life · hermeneutics · introspection · constructivism · perception · qualia · bias · postmodernism · belief systems · cognitive dissonance · self-concept · ideology · lived
- existentialismexistence, authenticity, existential angst, existential crisis, angst
- realitiestruths, facts, existence, actuality, being
- Nietzschewill to power, overman, superman, slave morality, Zarathustra
- RomanticismWilliam Blake, the sublime, J.M.W. Turner, Eugene Delacroix, emotionalism
- unreasonirrationalism, irrationality, unreason, illogic, anti-rationalism
- epistemologyknowledge, belief, justification, certainty, doubt
subjective truthuniversal truth
Fact holding everywhere, always
absolute truth · objective truth · eternal truth · timeless truth · self-evident truth