Deepak Chopra attacks Skepticism

[Eilonnwy]

There is no such thing as absolute truth and I think it's naive to think you must know absolutely before accepting something as true.

Whilst I agree with the latter half of that quote, I must disagree with your assertion that there is no such thing as absolute truth.

To say such a thing requires absolute truth in the first place (i.e. your insistence that absolute truth doesn't exist is an absolute truth in itself, forming a contradiction). So either you say your statement was relative, and that therefore absolute truth may exist, or you argue that whether absolute truth exists or not is not important, and the fact that non-omniscient beings cannot know absolute truths (or at least know that something they know is an absolute truth) is the main part of the debate.

Given that as an agnostic I do not think non-omniscient beings can know whether what they "know" is absolute truth, I tend to think in the latter form. All we can really say about truth is that our version of it is probabilistic, refined by observation, experience, and experimentation.

Smartass!

But yeah, I meant that people can't really know something absolutely. I'm often posting at work and trying to get my thoughts out quickly while I'm on break. Oops!