The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 2 days agoAn ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025lemmy.worldimagemessage-square216fedilinkarrow-up11.02Karrow-down19
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minus-squareletsgo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down10·21 hours agoAbsolute truth must exist, because if it doesn’t, “there is no absolute truth” is absolutely true, which is a contradiction.
minus-squareTarqon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·13 hours agoYou should look into Godel’s incompleteness theorem.
minus-squareletsgo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoI first encountered it in Hofstadter’s incredible book.
minus-squareorcrist@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·16 hours agoKind of, right? You’re making strong assumptions about the meanings of words. A lot of continental philosophy has been written about this subject.
minus-squareMellowYellow13@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·13 hours agoYou arent the decider of what truth is though, especially for others.
minus-squaredeltapi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·9 hours agoYou don’t agree that there are universal truths? Like the earth is spherical, the sun provides us light, and lemmy.ml is full of tankies?
minus-squareMellowYellow13@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 hour agoWhat is light to one is dark for another. Whats pain for one is gain for another. Everything is relative and through the lens of your own perspective, experience, and bias
minus-squareDragonstaff@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·20 hours agoObviously truth is absolute. The question is whether morality is absolute or relative.
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-216 hours agoI mean, in the same vein, I can completely break reality if it can’t stand a contradiction, watch: This sentence is false.
Absolute truth must exist, because if it doesn’t, “there is no absolute truth” is absolutely true, which is a contradiction.
You should look into Godel’s incompleteness theorem.
I first encountered it in Hofstadter’s incredible book.
Kind of, right? You’re making strong assumptions about the meanings of words. A lot of continental philosophy has been written about this subject.
You arent the decider of what truth is though, especially for others.
You don’t agree that there are universal truths? Like the earth is spherical, the sun provides us light, and lemmy.ml is full of tankies?
What is light to one is dark for another. Whats pain for one is gain for another. Everything is relative and through the lens of your own perspective, experience, and bias
I’ll take that as a ‘no’
Obviously truth is absolute. The question is whether morality is absolute or relative.
I mean, in the same vein, I can completely break reality if it can’t stand a contradiction, watch:
This sentence is false.