On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Phil Thayer <phil.thayer@vitalsite.com> wrote:

> So what about the concept of Absolute or Universal or Objective Truth?
> If I'm reading your statement above, you're saying that there is NO
> Absolute Truth.
> Is that a true statement?

True. Because Absolute implies that everyone knows all things, whether
they are currently known or not.

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.

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.