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Is everything relative or are there absolutes?
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frederick
Jun 25, 2015, 6:54:47 AM6/25/15
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Hi,
I'd like to know if everything is relative or if there are absolutes.
I tend to think everything is relative, but I've had people disagree.
frederick
I'd like to know if everything is relative or if there are absolutes.
I tend to think everything is relative, but I've had people disagree.
frederick
Huge
Jun 25, 2015, 7:56:10 AM6/25/15
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I don't have an attitude problem.
If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.
frederick
Jun 25, 2015, 9:10:29 AM6/25/15
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On 25/06/15 12:56, Huge wrote:
> On 2015-06-25, frederick <fake...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I'd like to know if everything is relative or if there are absolutes.
>>
>> I tend to think everything is relative, but I've had people disagree.
>
> Everything is absolutely relative.
>
This is just like the objectivity subjectivity discussion:
> On 2015-06-25, frederick <fake...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I'd like to know if everything is relative or if there are absolutes.
>>
>> I tend to think everything is relative, but I've had people disagree.
>
> Everything is absolutely relative.
>
"Everything is subjective."
"Then why is there such a word as objectivity?"
Or the perfection discussion:
"Nothing is perfect."
"So why is there such a word as perfection?"
Perhaps only when something is calculated (and/or interpreted) it can
become absolute via quantization?
Pete Barrett
Jun 25, 2015, 12:41:36 PM6/25/15
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On Thursday 25 Jun 2015 11:54, frederick wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'd like to know if everything is relative or if there are absolutes.
Wouldn't we all?
> Hi,
>
>
> I'd like to know if everything is relative or if there are absolutes.
>
> I tend to think everything is relative, but I've had people disagree.
>
Well, do you believe that 'everything is relative' is an absolute truth? Or
> I tend to think everything is relative, but I've had people disagree.
>
only a relative one? As far as I can see, most people behave as if there are
some things (truths, moral standards) which are absolute, while there are
others which are only relative.
In fact, I think it would be very difficult to behave as if *everything* was
relative, including the fact that everything is relative; and once you allow
that one thing to be absolute, why not other things as well?. You might be
able to get away with a structured model in which there was a lower realm
(in which everything is relative), and something like a meta realm which
says things about the lower realm (and which does contain absolutes). But
that's a bit theoretical for everyday concerns.
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Pete BARRETT
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