Posted by alexandra_k on March 10, 2005, at 2:31:33
In reply to Re: Everything is relative » alexandra_k, posted by Damos on March 9, 2005, at 20:29:12
:-) That was great.
> I believe that 'absolute' and 'relative' are simply labels/concepts that we use to help us explain our experience of and interaction with reality. Is the use of these very terms 'relative' to our experience?The difference between them might be more a matter of degree..
> It would be so easy to say "I absolutely believe that all moral are relative." But this would simply be me making a judgement based on my experience which includes interpretation, perception and reflection on direct experience and of the indirect experiences of others.Yeah. If everything is relative then even that is relative. It is self contradictiory, therefore necassarily false. So it follows that some things are not relative. What might those things be?
Statements that make claims (assertions) about the world like: 'There is a chair in this room on Monday the 23rd of January 2005' might be the sorts of things that are not relative.
Whether we believe it is true or whether we believe it is false there is a fact of the matter. It is possible to be right and it is possible to be wrong.
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