Relative truth🧠
When a system of thought becomes less than totally trivial, an infinite regress of challenges manifest and it becomes increasingly uncertain. The scientific method cannot lead to certainty, but only high probability. Things that philosophers thought they knew through pure reason often ended up being wrong. Therefor we can never establish absolute truth. However, absolute falsity can be established since a statement in its absolute form is falsified once an single exception to it is found. If we except this view, then “true” and “false” becomes relative to our knowledge at a particular time in history and should be modified to at least “relatively true” or “absolutely false.”
References
- Wilson, A., Robert (1986). The New Inquisition Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science Chapter 2 Skepticism and Blind Faith (Page 57 · Location 1073). Grand Junction, Colorado: Hilaritas Press
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