(December 5, 2013 at 10:37 am)LostLocke Wrote: Yes, if you put those qualifiers at the end of the statements, you can make absolute decisions about their truth.
But without those qualifiers, the truth of that statement is not absolute but only relative to the time in which they were spoken.
they are relative to the time in which they are spoken because it references a time after the present. in other words, it still references a specific range of time, just one that's relative to the present. so of course it will seem different when looked at in the future because it is without context. but it seems rather unfair for you to suggest the meaning of the phrase is changed if time has passed and its context is removed because you've just taken its meaning from it along with the context.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
-Galileo
-Galileo
