Subjective Issues

[Azu]

I am unable to make universally true statements so can anyone please suggest foundational resources to help me develop logical reasoning, argumentative, creative and critical thinking skills? I want to be able to make the first 100 universally true statements or write at least 10 universally significant theses before I will turn 30 next year.

[pocaracas]

When you say "universally true statements", what does that mean?
Statements that accurately represent reality everywhere in the Universe?... I'm not sure many can be made, as most true statements should break at singularities such as black holes.
You can always make a true statement using the negative:
- There is, at the moment of writing, no elephant in the room where I now stand.

[chimp3]

Universally true statement: 42

[bennyboy]

I am unable to make universally true statements so can anyone please suggest foundational resources to help me develop logical reasoning, argumentative, creative and critical thinking skills? I want to be able to make the first 100 universally true statements or write at least 10 universally significant theses before I will turn 30 next year.

In my opinion, truth-in-context statements are necessarily universally true.

Let's say, for example, that I say that in the context of quantum mechanics, photons exist in a state of superposition, and are resolved upon observation.

This, if true, is universally true for all instances of that context, by definition: wherever there is quantum physics, certain things will be true-- across all conceivable dimensions or universes.  Because if it isn't true in any context, it's just not quantum physics.

[Azu]

When you say "universally true statements", what does that mean?
Statements that accurately represent reality everywhere in the Universe?... I'm not sure many can be made, as most true statements should break at singularities such as black holes.
You can always make a true statement using the negative:
- There is, at the moment of writing, no elephant in the room where I now stand.

Negative statements are valid and useful.

While most 'universally true statements' apply to sciences, I'm interested in humanities and arts.

[SteelCurtain]

While most 'universally true statements' apply to sciences, I'm interested in humanities and arts.

I don't think they exist outside of the hard sciences, and that's why informal logic is a thing. When you insert human experience into the equation, 'universal' becomes impossible.

Hey, did I just write a universal truth?

[Azu]

While most 'universally true statements' apply to sciences, I'm interested in humanities and arts.

I don't think they exist outside of the hard sciences, and that's why informal logic is a thing. When you insert human experience into the equation, 'universal' becomes impossible.

Hey, did I just write a universal truth?

Yes, you just did - well done!

[ignoramus]

Ok, here's a start...


It is a universally true statement that pigs can't fly
It is a universally true statement that politicians are in it for their career prospects
It is a universally true statement that Blackmore, Iommi and Page are the divine holy trinity
It is a universally true statement that religion cannot exist in a logical world
It is a universally true statement that Stevie Nicks is the hottest 69 year old ever!
It is a universally true statement that there's no such thing as a universally true statement (expect for Stevie Nicks) (still can't shake off this obsession!)

[Aroura]

If no one can make a universally true statement, then isn't it a universally true statement to say that no one can make universally true statements? Meaning we can make at least one universally true statement, making our initial statement false, meaning we can't actually make universally true statements....but again, that's a universally true statement....round and round I go.

That's some fine paradoxical circular logic I just wrote, lol.

[Edwardo Piet]

There are no square circles. There are no married bachelors. There's two for you.