03-16-2017, 12:44 PM
(12-10-2010, 06:10 PM)turtledude23 Wrote: Truth is only relevant when you have a system of interpretting and conveying ideas, be it through logic or emotion, verbally or physically - and these are all imperfect, distorted means of communication. With that being said: I think truth is hierarchical, you have a core absolute truth that is true no matter who, what, why, where, when, how you are in existence such as "all is one". Then you have truths that only hold relevance to a certain portion of existence, and in a more distorted way, such as "democracy is a good thing".
Truth is a central concept (like space, time, consciousness, etc.) which can't really be defined, only described. If I was holding and apple and someone said "you're holding an apple" then their statement is true, if someone said that I'm not holding an apple when I was then that statement is less true than the first statement but still has some kind of relative truth for that person in that situation (maybe they have bad vision, maybe they're angry at me and that changed their visual perception of me). The truth that is more true to more beings is usually the one that is best to use.
Its possible that's not what they call Apple. "Hey your holding a hispoolch" to him that's truth, your holding a goddamn hispoolch. To everyone else that knows it as an apple, it's less true. However there both true. I basically agree with you.