RE: Is truth relative?
January 25, 2015 at 11:26 am
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2015 at 11:26 am by Alex K.)
My two cents about the relativity example: while the amount of time that passes depends on the reference frame, one can know the time that passes as seen from another reference frame. There are then "absolute" truths in relativity, you simply have to ask the right question. How much times passes: wrong question. How much time passes in the reference frame A? Well-defined question with a universal answer that is true in every other reference frame.
In a similar vein, I wonder whether you don't automatically recover universal truth again simply by acknowledging the "frame" dependence of certain truths in the widest sense, and by asking the correct question.
In a similar vein, I wonder whether you don't automatically recover universal truth again simply by acknowledging the "frame" dependence of certain truths in the widest sense, and by asking the correct question.
(January 24, 2015 at 7:34 pm)bennyboy Wrote: We know that some truths are relative. For example, the passing of time. In another thread, we talked about how a photon traveling from the sun will not "experience" time at all while it travels 1000 light years from our perspective to a distant planet. In this case, time has both really passed, and not passed at all.
But is it possible that ALL truth/truths are relative to their framework-- i.e. that things which are really true in the world people live in can be really false in another framework? Does this mean we cannot say, "X is true," but rather "X is true in our framework"?
Thoughts?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
