(October 16, 2012 at 1:08 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: Well, his statement that truth is dependant on perspective seems to suggest that truth is subjective and changes depending on how you look at a thing, which is wrong because a thing is true regardless of how we feel about it or whether or not we can see it or not. It seems that we are in agreeance if you are saying that a propostion that lines up with objective reality is true whereas one that does not would necesarily be false.
Now "truth" as it relates to beauty or happiness would be a subjective thing, but I would not choose to use the concept truth when dealing with such subjects except in a geometric dimensioning and tolerancing context of "true" being used to denote orthogonality.
I mean, sure. Totally.
Not sure about that last bit, but yes we do agree about truth in the context of propositions about objective states of affairs. I'll have to go back and see what the original claim had been. I was just chiming in out of context.
I'd prefer to use different words in relation to beauty, wisdom, justice and ethics. If "truth" has any meaning in those realms, it's borrowed and confusing. Now, to go back, read the original claim and see just how far off the mark I actually was.
