And the Truth is ...
These days the complex idea which has been gripping me is relative simple when it comes to expreesing it in words.
It is " how do we know what is true and what is not?"
This idea took its rudimentary form some year or two back, but became more profound after my philosophy class, where after a prolonged debate with all logic and abstract conditoning it was finally agreed that nothing is ABSOLUTE. This implies that everything is RELATIVE, but to what I have no clue. I guess it will take another class for the bunch of tyro philo enthusiast to answer the last question. But all this while I was just wondering how unaffected, unaltered the actual truth remains to all discussions and thus conclusion we arrive at in the class. Like the sun will continue to rise and shine everyday, smiling at out naivity , planets continue to revolve and so does our milkyway. River continue to flow and flowers continue to blossom and the bees continue to hum around them. So does all the word game that we play at the class sufficient to change the nature of truth relative or absolute? Does this apply to just us or to everybody including Plato, Socrates or any person for that matter who come up with his conception of the world? Just because certain things have been said by certain biggies, does that make it true all together?
This last question bring me to ground zero, from where I started then what is truth Absolute or Relative. I think i should end this before I get into another round of contemplation because even that is not going to shake the rock bottom :)
It is " how do we know what is true and what is not?"
This idea took its rudimentary form some year or two back, but became more profound after my philosophy class, where after a prolonged debate with all logic and abstract conditoning it was finally agreed that nothing is ABSOLUTE. This implies that everything is RELATIVE, but to what I have no clue. I guess it will take another class for the bunch of tyro philo enthusiast to answer the last question. But all this while I was just wondering how unaffected, unaltered the actual truth remains to all discussions and thus conclusion we arrive at in the class. Like the sun will continue to rise and shine everyday, smiling at out naivity , planets continue to revolve and so does our milkyway. River continue to flow and flowers continue to blossom and the bees continue to hum around them. So does all the word game that we play at the class sufficient to change the nature of truth relative or absolute? Does this apply to just us or to everybody including Plato, Socrates or any person for that matter who come up with his conception of the world? Just because certain things have been said by certain biggies, does that make it true all together?
This last question bring me to ground zero, from where I started then what is truth Absolute or Relative. I think i should end this before I get into another round of contemplation because even that is not going to shake the rock bottom :)
posted by Neha Garg at 1/28/2007 03:45:00 PM
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I thought u hated philo :).
Hmm Absolute truth? There's no such thing as absolute truth everything is relative and by einstien(or was it newton)no frame of reference is preffered by nature so they are all correct.
Yeh sab fatte marne chhod aur movies dekh mere 20 marks ka sawal hai. And thats one absolute truth :)
Truth : Absolute or Relative
Let say X is a truth.
ex: X is a human being who has 2 legs and 2 hands.
X remains absolute as long as u don't have anything to compare it's truthfullness with. On earth every human being has the same structure. So truth X is absolute.
if u can think beyond it, ie , may be on other planet there exists a human being who is completely similar to us but has 3 legs. So now u have options or say u have set of human beings. Let say the human being with 3 legs be truth Y.
If u completely belive that X is the only possibillity of human being, then Y is not a human being. So here Y is being ruled out as it is relatively not similar to X.
case 1: when we didn't know there could exists Y, X was absolute truth.
case 2: when we know there could exists Y, X acts as a scale of comparision., a relative.
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