Posted by Damos on March 10, 2005, at 15:54:26
In reply to Re: Everything is relative » Damos, posted by alexandra_k on March 10, 2005, at 2:31:33
> :-) That was great.
Thank you :-)
> 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?The sky is absolute. Clouds and rainbows are relative - they are not actually in or of the sky, nor does the sky cease to exist due to there appearance.
Imperperance is a fact (in my opinion). Even something as seeming permanent as the Earth shakes every now and then to let us know she is changing and not to get complacent.
> 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.
But if I did not directly experience the existance of the chair in that room on Monday the 23rd of January 2005, the truth of this statement is only 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.There you go an absolute fact: It is possible to be both right and wrong about anything. :0)
P.S: I think you copped a pretty rough go over on the meds board.
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