RE: A question for those who believe truth is not absolute
June 1, 2016 at 11:32 am
(This post was last modified: June 1, 2016 at 11:33 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(June 1, 2016 at 10:00 am)Blueyedlion Wrote: Ok good, now explain how can you know what that objective truth is, if all you can know is the truth of your own personal experience?
You make the mistake of confusing differing sense data drawn from objects in external reality and the objects themselves. Basically you are saying that either 1) sense data has no relationship with objects in external reality or 2) there are no objects in external reality from which to draw sense data.
Belief in objective truth depends on the existential choice of the individual to accept the notion that there is an external reality capable of being known even if only partially. For example, you see an apple from the front and assume from prior experience that it is whole. I see it from the back and see that it has a bite taken from it. The sense data we take from the apple may differ, but we are still drawing that sense data from an object that exists independently of what either you or I think about it.
