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Is truth relative?
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RE: Is truth relative?
(January 25, 2015 at 10:54 pm)Alex K Wrote: The reference frame of a photon is not a well defined observer rest frame (see the other thread).
Nor is that in a black hole singularity I think. Sometime I wonder if infinity from our perspective could be the zero point of a kind of inverse reference: so whatever is going on in a black hole sees US as the unexplainable math-breaking reference point.


Quote:But of course independent of this discussion science never deals in final truths, so I may have to backpedal a bit with my earlier statement
That's right. Science deals with the implications of events or entities in a particular context: it just happens to be a massively large one. Smile

But the philosophical question is whether there really ARE truths that are context-independent, and we are just too limited to perceive them, or whether truth itself is just determined by whatever arbitrary vantage point we happen to choose.
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Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 24, 2015 at 7:34 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Dystopia - January 24, 2015 at 7:45 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 24, 2015 at 8:56 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Tonus - January 24, 2015 at 9:00 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 24, 2015 at 9:12 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by IATIA - January 24, 2015 at 11:10 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 25, 2015 at 12:28 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by IATIA - January 25, 2015 at 12:35 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 25, 2015 at 3:10 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by Neo-Scholastic - January 25, 2015 at 1:16 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 25, 2015 at 8:17 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Alex K - January 25, 2015 at 10:39 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 24, 2015 at 8:02 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Minimalist - January 24, 2015 at 8:02 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Darkstar - January 24, 2015 at 8:28 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by ManMachine - January 24, 2015 at 8:35 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by The Grand Nudger - January 24, 2015 at 11:15 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Davka - January 24, 2015 at 11:42 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Mudhammam - January 25, 2015 at 12:20 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by robvalue - January 25, 2015 at 3:34 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 25, 2015 at 8:19 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by downbeatplumb - January 25, 2015 at 1:17 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Dystopia - January 25, 2015 at 10:52 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by The Grand Nudger - January 25, 2015 at 9:22 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by Alex K - January 25, 2015 at 11:26 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 25, 2015 at 12:18 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Alex K - January 25, 2015 at 10:54 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 25, 2015 at 11:10 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by The Grand Nudger - January 26, 2015 at 12:35 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 26, 2015 at 5:11 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by Alex K - January 26, 2015 at 5:42 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by The Grand Nudger - January 26, 2015 at 7:54 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by Jackie - January 26, 2015 at 8:39 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 26, 2015 at 9:47 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by Jackie - January 26, 2015 at 9:54 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 26, 2015 at 11:29 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by Jackie - January 26, 2015 at 12:26 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by tantric - January 26, 2015 at 10:27 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by Jackie - January 26, 2015 at 10:39 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by Davka - January 26, 2015 at 12:55 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by The Grand Nudger - January 26, 2015 at 10:30 am

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