The world is simultaneously a lot simpler and dumber, and more complex and difficult to comprehend, than most people think at the same time.
The problem is a lot of the the things some people think are complex, are really simple. And a lot of things people think are simple, are really complex. Our intuitions habitually fail us in this regard.
I found this note to be really complex, and yet simple :)
This is an absolute truth
You mean a fact?!
Absolute truth is a contradiction and paradox as truths and facts agreed upon.
Facts can be unknown, but not truths.
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Facts ARE agreed upon to truth.
Darn typos
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I see 😊
Lay off the drugs when you see it
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Depends on what you mean by "absolute truth". I would argue that 2 + 2 = 4, is an absolute truth, in the sense, as David Hume would characterize in his epistemology, a "necessary truth". Another example being: all triangles have three sides. These things are necessarily true, and thus I would argue, are absolutely true.
But in the moral and empirical landscape, I would agree, that yes, absolute truth becomes a contradiction, as you say.
I would also suggest there may be brute facts about the universe that would also necessarily be absolutely true, even if the are beyond our capacity to observe or rationally infer. If I had to guess, I'd wager such brute facts exist.
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