(May 29, 2016 at 7:11 am)Irrational Wrote: To those where who believe truth is relative:
When someone throws at you the question "Is it the absolute truth that truth is relative?", how do you respond to that? I have read some attempts on other sites but they seem too complicated for me to understand their point. So explain to me like I'm five, what is unreasonable about the question itself?
Yes and no depending on what you mean by absolute truth. Speed and time are relative to your vantage point, but the speed and time from your vantage point are absolute. How sure we are of the absolute truth of empirical claims is probabalistic not absolute but that doesn't stop the truth from being absolute. Only truths based solely on definitions like all triangles have three sides are not only absolute, but absolutely known. Some truths, like moral or esthetic truths are always relative.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
