<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Phil Thayer <<a href="mailto:phil.thayer@vitalsite.com">phil.thayer@vitalsite.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> So what about the concept of Absolute or Universal or Objective Truth?<br>
> If I'm reading your statement above, you're saying that there is NO<br>
> Absolute Truth.<br>
> Is that a true statement?<br>
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</div></div>True. Because Absolute implies that everyone knows all things, whether<br>
they are currently known or not. <br></blockquote></div><br>Are you absolutely sure that's a true statement? Of course you aren't, because it's not. Truth and Reality simply are. Whether any individual person knows a particular truth doesn't make it untrue; it just makes it unknown, to that person. It isn't necessary for everyone else to know something that I know for me to know it.<br>
<br>As Donald Rumsfeld famously alluded, there are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. (He left out unknown knowns.) But don't think for a moment that they aren't absolutely true, even when they're unknown.<br>