Green Rascal Design

What you describe as different truths when you discuss the difference between your perception of yourself as a philosophy student and that of your teachers is really just that: a difference in perceptions. It is not two different truths, simply because what kind of student you were has a solid basis in fact. You liked it, you hated it, you did well, you did poorly: all of these are facts. Your views while taking the class are facts, as are the views of your fellow students.

As the years pass, these things become jumbled, and people tend to recite them differently. A fellow student who liked you may describe you as a brilliant student, although you may have been only mediocre, and another, who may have taken a disliking to you, may well describe you as considerably worse than you were. Discounting the obvious malice or favoritism that sometimes occurs in situations like this, we may fairly ascribe the difference in descriptions as simply a divergence in memories. That’s why the much vaunted eye witness to a crime does not always deliver unimpeachable testimony. Memory is a precarious thing. Nevertheless, over and above those considerations, there is there is still the actual fact of the kind of student you were.

All of which is a rather lengthy way of saying that I do not believe people have different truths, simply because the truth of any situation is correspondence to the facts of what occurred. What people do have is different memories and different outlooks and different tastes.