(October 25, 2016 at 1:40 pm)Lek Wrote:(October 25, 2016 at 1:15 pm)Irrational Wrote: You are mixing up perception of color with the wavelength range corresponding to each labeled color. When people refer to a green car, they are not referring to the wavelength itself but rather to their perception of the color they see with their eyes in accordance with how colors are labeled.
Another example is beauty. You might see something as aesthetically beautiful, and that is a truth for you, but someone else might see the same thing as unpleasant to look at, and so that would be a truth to them. There need not be ultimate truth in every case.
I think you just made a good case for the relevance of truth to people. The question I must ask myself then, as a follower of Christ, is whether or not I should follow my perception of truth or God's perception of truth as related in scripture.
are you a literal bible or non literal bible guy?
anti-logical Fallacies of Ambiguity
