2007-02-16 08:22:51 · 21 answers · asked by Diesel Weasel 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
truth is absolute but some people twist it so that it can only be relative to certain situations.
2007-02-17 01:57:55 · answer #1 · answered by Annie 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Truth is nice in that it gives us a choice. Truth is relatives during those family reunions when they are running all over, destroying your place, and causing you money. Truth has told me that I really do not have in-laws. I have a bunch of out-laws. When I had just about as much of this relative truth as I can take, I turn to a bottle of Absolut Vodka. After about three glasses, believe me the truth is Absolut!
2007-02-16 09:33:10 · answer #2 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should really try something simply first, like what is truth or would I know it if I saw it, or is it really just a single body of truth or are there separate truths about many things. Simply, many people talk about truth in a very religious fashion without really understanding what it means in that sense, thinking that their usage means everything, or understand it but misapply it in other meanings. There are time that truth is relative, for example when you recount something that happened to you or testify in court, you could be telling the truth as you know it, but that may not match what really happened. Truth can also be absolute in that the statement "evolution is a fact" is true. But when you assert that a deity is the truth, then you start to really lose sight of what truth means. Edit: I would say that absolute truth about a subject is rarely expressible by a simple statement.
2016-05-24 07:35:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello!
Good question. First of all we must say that nothing in this world is absolute.
Telling the truth is the best thing. It is about your self esteem. By telling the truth you say the people that you accept your good and bad sides of your personality.
But the thing is that always the truth is subjective...which means everyone is seeing the truth the way of his perception.
For example if your mother is control freak, and when she tells you something for your own good, then your truth is : she is a control freak...but she was giving you an advice.
I hope you understood my point,that's why the truth is subjective and relative...of the prejudices that we have in our minds.
Good luck in finding the truth :)
2007-02-16 08:43:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Truth is absolute, that is its very definition. Fact, that is relative.
Fact, this is the highest mountain in the world. Well, that depends on which world and when, there may be a higher one someday, or this one may shrink.
Truth are those things that never change though. If there is any truth, it is absolute. If there is no absolute, then there is no truth, only temporary facts, logical deductions, and other less important things.
2007-02-16 08:42:25 · answer #5 · answered by dude 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If "truth is relative" is the correct answer, then "truth is absolute" is the wrong answer. Which means that the statement "all truth is relative" is an absolute statement; it requires that the other option be false. So truth must be absolute.
2007-02-16 08:36:01 · answer #6 · answered by adelphos79 1 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Truth can be absolute only in the case of death.
Everything else depends on a person's point of view and the facts that that are available to them concerning the subject in question..
2007-02-16 09:35:04 · answer #7 · answered by madisonian51 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the source-and it's goal. Human reasoning will forever blind us to Absolution -it is in the eye of the beholder. Relativity is a common ground for defining truths,that only have limited merit,within this finite realm of infinity.
2007-02-16 08:50:56 · answer #8 · answered by racer123 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think,
The complete and total truth is absolute, but within the complete and total truth they are many relative milestones.
2007-02-16 11:28:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truth is absolute, as proven by the other writers who posted here. It is a common trap to say, "Well, if it is true for you, that is great, but that does not make it true for me."
"All truth is God's truth," said a great writer, educator and lawyer of the Middle Ages, John Calvin.
2007-02-16 08:47:37 · answer #10 · answered by Bob T 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋