Rather than saying “I believe snow is white” we should be saying “that whiteness is snow”, since we layer models around percepts rather than vice versa. If discovering the truth means to fit percept to a model, it seems obvious that you need access to a complete model to begin with, and thus follow the OP’s complaints about needing unmediated access to reality. This is I think responsible for the confusion surrounding this topic.
Rather than saying “I believe snow is white” we should be saying “that whiteness is snow”, since we layer models around percepts rather than vice versa. If discovering the truth means to fit percept to a model, it seems obvious that you need access to a complete model to begin with, and thus follow the OP’s complaints about needing unmediated access to reality. This is I think responsible for the confusion surrounding this topic.