Is there a Single, Objective, Absolute TRUTH?
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Well, is there?
Or is reality, God, the universe (or whatever) fluid, based entirely on perception; altering between person to person and simply a product of our subjective perspective?
Or is reality, God, the universe (or whatever) fluid, based entirely on perception; altering between person to person and simply a product of our subjective perspective?
But, don't confuse epistemology with ontology. Our epistemic vantage point may impoverished, but whatever the world is, it is.
It is possible for an answer to be partially true, although this means that the answer is also partially false. If we're stringent, we may reject partial truths as falsities (if part of an answer is false the whole is also false). If we're pragmatic, we can recognize that there are different maps for the world and that in some contexts, some maps work pretty well.
Truth must be singular or we would have contradictions "P" and "Not P" affirmed. You're not going to reason without the Law of Contradiction, Identity, and Excluded Middle.
A claim may be objective (in the sense of not depending on it's utterer to have truth-status), even though it may not be absolute. Absolute means objective and without exception.
There are absolute truths. These include the laws of thought (mentioned above), possibly physical laws of the universe (at least, this is so if the scientists are right in the scientific presupposition that the laws of nature are the same everywhere in the universe - and if not, whither science, LOL), and even domains such as ethics. For example, "It is wrong to torture a person strictly for the fun of it" is an exceptionless moral rule that looks pretty solid.
