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Philosophers have been arguing this since time immemorial. I personally believe, as Kant said, that our mind from the beginning determines what truth is for us; that we are as human beings programmed with the truth. We go outside that and label other ideas truth but they are really just cultural beliefs, like woman covering their bodies; put forth as God's truth but really man's truth. Here's a discussion about two different points of view: http://www.nds.edu/old/hidalgo.htm
What little I knew of Kant I've largely forgotten - but I seem to remember that he came nowhere convincing me that his clouds of verbiage were worth much.
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Examples? I don't think truth can be relative though it can be approximate.
Well, it is wrong to kill. Except when someone is trying to kill you. That is a relative truth.
Once one, resonable enough, admits an exception the original statement is no longer a 'truth'. And can normative statements ever be 'truths'?
That is the problem in casual conversation, is it not? Lake of common definition of terms.
Depends on your definition of "truth", of course. If you mean "strongly held conviction", then of course it's relative. The scientific truth isn't.
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[1 point] 2 years ago byPhilosophers have been arguing this since time immemorial. I personally believe, as Kant said, that our mind from the beginning determines what truth is for us; that we are as human beings programmed with the truth. We go outside that and label other ideas truth but they are really just cultural beliefs, like woman covering their bodies; put forth as God's truth but really man's truth. Here's a discussion about two different points of view: http://www.nds.edu/old/hidalgo.htm
What little I knew of Kant I've largely forgotten - but I seem to remember that he came nowhere convincing me that his clouds of verbiage were worth much.
The truth often has many shades of gray.