Can anything ever really be considered ‘true’ or is everything subjective?

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The heart of the matter is: if the source of every truth is our senses, our perception, then all truths are subjective. Is this correct? Well, this is not always the case, as long as the scientific method is concerned. Researchers cannot always trust their senses, because there are many things we cannot experience through them. For example, we cannot see atoms or air particles. What scientists do then is to build models and to conduct experiments that can be extrapolated to those contexts, and ultimately they test them to find out if they are valid. Indeed philosophers affirm that there are truths which are invariably solid notwithstanding experience, such as mathematical truth.

According to András Bozsik, from the University of Debrecen, truth is objective, but its perception is subjective.

Therefore if we were presented with the truth in scientific terms, it would look objective, but when someone narrates it with any kind of creative format, it becomes subjective, as we would add certain nuances originating from our personal view, our emotional filter, cultural bias, drives, delusions and even intentional distortions, to name a few.

Thus the media show us the news, while in bars citizens recount them like undeniable facts, even if they have gone through all this screening. However, as soon as one thinks out of the box, our opinion does not seem to be so clear-cut. For example, the world is moved now because Notre-Dame de Paris has been considerably damaged by a fire. 700 million donations have already been gathered to rebuild the temple. But have we stopped to think about the 74 Mosques that have been destroyed in Palestine during the war, or about the thousands of children who die every day in the world? Or, in an act of assuming full responsibility, should we devote our own lives to ensure social justice?