Can anyone form an absolute statement?

Question

The best I could come up with is 'Everything is sometimes true.' Let me know how my statement holds up to the test or if you have a better one.

Pls dont give facts.. (i.e. A dog is an animal)

>> "I know only that I know nothing."
Knowing that you know nothing means that you know something. Hence the statement is an oxymoron.

>>What if I say I know everything than at some point I must know everything.according to your logic.

Since we know a bit more everyday, through deduction, given enough time, we should know everything.

>> Everything is not sometimes true when 'all' things that are false are always false.

So what statement is false and will always remain false?

>>You don't know what you don't know.

But I know what I dont know. I know that I dont know how big the universe is :)

>>Fiction will turn to fact in the progress of time

What if the fiction wrote of time stop progressing?

>> Some things are true whilst others are false

True, but there are times when things that are thought to be true are false. Hence my statement 'Everything is sometimes true' :)

>>you can't come up with one is because there are NO absolutes

>>Don't ask for absolutes, you will only learn fallacy

If there are no absolutes then these statements will only contradict themselves since they themselves will be the absolute truths.

Math in real life is not always true conceptually..

unless two apples are exactly the same - 1 apple plus 1 apple doesn't add up to exactly two, right?

1 apple + 1 apple WILL ALWAYS = 1 apple + 1 apple
and will never, no matter what the conditions, = anything else

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>> As soon as you're born you began dying

Sometimes babies are born dead hence they never started on the process of dying.. :)

>>If in fact there is some sort of after life, then death has not occurred. The only absolute here is that we will never know by living.

Some people who were brought back to life after being clinically pronounced dead thinks that they what lies beyond death.

>> we all die.

We do not know that for sure yet. With the advancement in bio-engineering, genetics-engineering and cybernetics, we may one day never die. Because there is a chance that we will never die, the statement cannot be an absolute thruth :)

Answer 1

umm.... nobody knows everything
ur's is good too, and i'm not even sure about mine, but it sounds true enough.

Answer 2

"I know only that I know nothing." Don't ask for absolutes, you will only learn fallacy. You said "everything is sometimes true" What if I say I know everything than at some point I must know everything.according to your logic.

Response:
If you think I didn't realize the contradiction of my first statement you are a moron, and you used the term oxymoron incorrectly. Secondly goodluck if you think anyone can ever know everything let alone anything, you are completely lost. Anyone can go through disproving absolute statements because they don't exist. True and false are nothing but words and not everything will be either true or false Quit wasting your time with this moronic exercise.

Answer 3

That which has life must ultimately surrender it. Sounds like an absolute, but we can't be sure. If in fact there is some sort of after life, then death has not occurred. The only absolute here is that we will never know by living.

Answer 4

'Fiction will turn to fact in the progress of time.'

meaning that a fictional story or a fictional idea (i.e. television wristwatches from Dick Tracy comics) will eventually come to be fact.
A pretty solid statement, huh?

Details:
Actually, time will eventually stop!
The Universe expands as time contines. It is thought that, when the Universe stops expanding time will stop too. It is also thought that, as the Universe contracts, to prepare for another Big Bang, time will run its course in reverse.
Now that I think about it, this is one unbreakable statement:
'Nothing is absolute' (not even the flow of Time!)

Answer 5

Close, but probably still not an absolutely true statement.
It fails to account for universal truths.
For example "2+2=5 is sometimes true" does not make any sense to me.

Answer 6

Some things are true whilst others are false.


Oopsies, does that count as a fact?

Answer 7

Everything is not sometimes true when 'all' things that are false are always false.

Answer 8

As soon as you're born you began dying

Answer 9

Yes.

Answer 10

Can someone form an absolute statement?
"Absolutely!"
What is it?
How about, this one?
You don't know what you don't know.

Answer 11

reason you can't come up with one is because there are NO absolutes.