are there any absolute truths?
if “no”, then is that an absolute truth?
Refer to Tarski’s Undefinability Theorem.
I enjoyed this guys write up on some details of the theorem.
or maybe you want to play with coherence theory?
or maybe you should just see how others arbitrage the search for truth in pursuit of google rank!
hahahahah.
peace.
I think the question: “Are there any absolute truths?” gets all the play and is a product of a philosophical history of mono-causality logic itself rather than anything utilitarian. The question as stated requires a ‘yes/no’ answer which poisons the answer.
While anything can be asked, if one wants to know about how the world works and what principles are operating to make it what it is and answer communicated to citizens, the question concerning the existence of absolute truths requires a different approach. One such approach is from an empirical or science-based perspective. From that approach a different question arises.
I suggest that the question is: “Have any absolute truths been demonstrated and validated?” The answer to that question is also “no.” Two important things are different about asking the latter question. 1) it avoids a conundrum of syntactical verbiage allowing for an answer that can be understood without pleading to a meta language that is itself a problem. 2) it keeps open the idea that if an absolute truth were to be demonstrated and validated it would be interesting and a significant exception to what has been found to that date.
What say all of you?
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The fault I have with this and almost all “abstract” thinking I have encountered is that it merely tears down known “truths” and asks questions which cannot be answered. While I too enjoy doing this, have any of us come up with new truths?