Why People Believe in the Thruth?

Why people believe in the truth?

In order for our early ancestors to help secure their existence, it was necessary for them to be able to live together in groups. On their own, they would have struggled to survive. By living in a (somewhat) coherent group, they would have been able to produce more goods and ideas than a bunch of individuals on their own ever could.

In order for our ancestors to be able to live in groups, they needed an ideology (or a set of rules) for how the group was going to function. After all, if everyone just ran around and did whatever they wanted to, the group would not function very effectively.

In order for them to be able to create an effective ideology, they needed to believe in the concept of truth. They needed to believe that there was "a way things are supposed to be".

In order for our earliest ancestors to believe that they knew "the way things are supposed to be", they needed to feel much more knowledgeable than they really