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Is There Such a Thing Absoute Truth

Discussion in 'Philosophy' started by elisheva99, Jun 30, 2015.

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    elisheva99 New Member

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    The idea that there is no absolute truth is a self conflicting statement. To say that nothing can be seen as absolutely true flies in the face of the statement itself. How can that statement be absolutely true if there is no such thing?? Has anyone else ever considered this?
     
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    I think there are some things that are absolutely true in life. For example- I have blue eyes and have always had blue eyes naturally. I can change the color of my eyes with contacts but, my eyes will still be blue underneath them. When we get into bigger things like peoples perspectives I don't think there are absolute truth. Two men can walk in the rain and have two totally different experiences. One might find it wonderful and the other might be cursing. Absolute truths can be fluid like. Like a river is ever-changing peoples perspectives can change and yup! they do.
     
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    It depends on the perspective of the individual, I suppose. If I consider honesty as the absolute truth, it may not be so for the person who does not agree with me.
    According to me, conscience is truth.
     
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    Not on this plane,no.There is absolute truth in the Consciousness:)
     
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    In life, some situations need to approached objectively, while others may be viewed from a subjective perspective. I firmly believe that there is definitely such a thing as the "Absolute Truth." The generation of today is one that has been fed with years of relativism. As a result, it often struggles to confront objective reality.

    A blind man on the road will most certainly have to accept that there could be a car hurtling toward him any moment. He cannot discount this possibility at the altar of relativism.
     
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    Yes, there is an Absolute truth. We cannot change the fact that things are happening around us and once it's done we cannot go back and alter it that's why there is absolute truth. But I think a lie can be an absolute truth also if you believed in it without noticing that you are just being tricked.
     
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    Are we supposing that absolute means independent of personal perception? If so then it's hard to say that anything is absolutely true. As so many have already said perception can provide two completely opposite truths for an independent event. Some argue that facts are absolute truths, but my question is what happens when "facts" change? Does that mean that absolute truths are subject to time and personal knowledge?

    Even if we define absolute as being universally valid, isn't validity subject to personal experience? From this standpoint I don't think that there is an absolute truth.
     
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    There is no absolute truth, there are only relative truths ( by the way, what is a truth ? ). Assume that there was only light, can we call that which exists then as light? ( you really have to think ). When you say there is light, that itself implies that there is dark, because we can't define light without darkness. Can fire burn itself? can a knife cut itself? Existence is pointless without a reference. Those are familiar with quantum physics may know that the very act of observation alters what is being observed, then how can we even observe something?.:eek: Remember, all of our senses are a kind of observation.
     
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    At this present moment of time, there are many absolute truths. One is that we exist. We cannot say for what the reason may be, or how, but a statement can exist in its own right. As John129 pointed out, fire doesn't burn itself, but another way to look at it is, "Does the know-er know itself?" Knowing is truth, as is existing. But if there is a know-er of that truth, it disappears like watching the waves from a boat flow away. So the question is unanswerable by any means until it is not asked. It didn't go away, it is just unseen, like the backstage of a theater.
     
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    There is no 'truth' in this universe, only beliefs. Whatever you believe becomes true for you. This one idea saved my life when I was lying in hospital with kidney failure and given six months to live. The 'truth' of the matter was that all the top doctors and specialists had tried and failed to save my kidneys and there wasn't a donor in sight... but I was lucky enough find someone who taught me that the 'truth'of the matter was only what I believed it to be. As soon as I shifted my belief from the truth that the doctors told me, to the truth that I chose - that I could get healed and live a normal life again - then everything changed for me. And ten years later, I'm living proof that what we believe truly becomes true for us.
     
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    If we make the claim that there is no absolute truth, we are in doing so asserting it as an absolute truth. This is paradoxical, which indicates that there is something wrong with the question itself. Any time we ascribe universal qualities to things, we invite the possibility for contradiction. For example, if God is all-powerful, can he create a rock that's so heavy he cannot lift it?

    I think a sensible way to resolve this kind of dilemma would be to say that there are no absolute truths of the universe, but there can be universal truths within the universe. Some things within the universe can be said to be true all of the time, e.g. the laws of physics and mathematics (until the universe itself starts to break down, and as such so do these laws). Outside of the scope of the universe, however, nothing else applies.
     

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