Is truth relative?

[Brian37]

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?

I always get a lip twitch when people do this. It is not lab thinking, it isn't that you should never question, yes you should question. I simply don't like the attitude that platonic thinking is alone enough to problem solve. You still have to take whatever thoughts and ideas you might have and set up a compare and contrast with control groups, test and falsify them and get them independently peer reviewed. Now unless science discovers some earth shattering method that makes scientific method mute, what you are doing really is still mental masturbation.

Dawkins if you do not know places blame on Plato for all the utopia political and religious ideology humans have suffered from since. Plato postulated that if you simply thought about something you could find it's "essence". His idea of questioning was good, but the fatal flaw is he did not have a good concept of why comparing and testing was really the only thing that could insure the best quality of data and most accurate answers.

I am not saying do not do what you are doing. I simply think it still means nothing until it can be tested and falsified.