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A question for those who believe truth is not absolute
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RE: A question for those who believe truth is not absolute
We'd have to be using "truth" in two different senses. We'd need the sense for the statement we are making, in that we are implying it is true; and then we'd need to redefine what "relative truth" actually means in a way that doesn't directly reference regular truth.

I'm not saying it can be done in a useful way, or what it would mean if you accomplished it; I'm just thinking of a workaround, so the statements "truth is relative" could be meaningful.

Looking at it another way: can it be that something is true, but it cannot be coherently displayed as a true statement without causing a paradox? In a similar way that some things can be true but can't be proven true, in abstract systems.
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RE: A question for those who believe truth is not absolute - by robvalue - June 1, 2016 at 1:53 pm

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