RE: Is there objective Truth?
October 17, 2016 at 6:39 pm
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2016 at 6:40 pm by Angrboda.)
Truth is a relationship between an abstract and the concrete. When I say this pen is blue, it's only true insofar as the adjective blue is accurately descriptive of the pen. Truth is a relationship between two things, and that relationship only occurs in thought. So no, truth would not exist if there were no minds. Would it be true that the pen is blue if there were no one around to think it? No. The relationship only has meaning as something which the pen approaches if there is a mind to conceive of that congruity. Without such, all you have are things in themselves.
"The creator is the source of objectivity."
This is nothing more than a bare assertion. If there is no creator, then this is just gibberish. And even on your own terms it's not necessarily true. Most theologians agree that God is not able to do the logically impossible. Moreover, God's nature is such that he embodies truth; he can't violate his own nature. (by the definition of essence) So God is constrained by the laws of logic. Can God violate the PNC? If God is constrained by logic, then that is an objective truth that he did not create.
So we have a cosmological argument and some gibberish about a creator. This is all very underwhelming.
"The creator is the source of objectivity."
This is nothing more than a bare assertion. If there is no creator, then this is just gibberish. And even on your own terms it's not necessarily true. Most theologians agree that God is not able to do the logically impossible. Moreover, God's nature is such that he embodies truth; he can't violate his own nature. (by the definition of essence) So God is constrained by the laws of logic. Can God violate the PNC? If God is constrained by logic, then that is an objective truth that he did not create.
So we have a cosmological argument and some gibberish about a creator. This is all very underwhelming.
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